Chico Lingo, by Sergio Troncoso

Reading of excerpts: Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, by Sergio Troncoso

Travels to Yellowstone, Connecticut, Hawaii, Florida, Texas, Costa Rica, and Sweden

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About "Chico Lingo"

Sergio Troncoso: Sergio Troncoso is the author of four books: The Last Tortilla and Other Stories, Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, and the novels The Nature of Truth and From This Wicked Patch of Dust. Please visit his website at SergioTroncoso.com.

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From This Wicked Patch of Dust: A Novel

***Selected by Southwest Books of the Year as a 'Notable Book,' and by Dark Sky Magazine as one of the 'Best Books of 2011.'

Starred Review* "Troncoso is clearly adept at his craft, telling a story filled with rich language and the realities of family life....With its skillful pairing of conflict over religious and familial obligations with the backdrop of a Mexican-American family’s love for one another, Troncoso’s novel is an engaging literary achievement."
---Kirkus Reviews

"The real beauty of this book is that it mines the rich diversity of tradition and culture among Latinos, as well as the commonalities they share with other Americans — love of family, faith and country."
---The Dallas Morning News

Crossing Borders: Personal Essays

***Selected by The Hispanic Reader as one of the 'Best Books of 2011.'

"Engrossing and revealing."
---Daniel Olivas for The El Paso Times

"Troncoso is an elegant writer whose work will make readers grateful that he writes his life down."
---The Hispanic Reader

"These very personal essays cross several borders: cultural, historical, and self-imposed....We owe it to ourselves to read, savor and read them again."
---Manuel Ramos for The El Paso Times

Short Stories, Essays, and Radio Interviews

Short Stories
---> Angie Luna
---> A Rock Trying to be a Stone
---> The Snake

Essays
---> The Loss of Juarez
---> Imagine Ysleta
---> Fresh Challah

Radio Interviews
---> Words on a Wire Interview, KTEP (mp3 audio format; 11 minutes)
---> KUHA Houston Public Radio Interview (mp3 audio format; 82 minutes)
---> NPR Interview on Latino USA (real audio format; 4 minutes)

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The Last Tortilla and Other Stories

Winner of the Premio Aztlan and the Southwest Book Award

"These stories are richly satisfying."
---Publishers Weekly

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The Nature of Truth

A novel about a Yale research student who discovers that his boss, a renowned professor, hides a Nazi past.

"Impressively lucid first thriller."
---The Chicago Tribune

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Chico Lingo Blog Archive

▼ 2011 (12)
- ▼ December (1)
  - My brother in Afghanistan
- ► November (1)
  - November Readings and Events
- ► October (1)
  - October Readings and Events
- ► September (2)
  - Why I Wrote From This Wicked Patch of Dust
  - September Readings and Events
- ► August (1)
  - The Lost Border: Request for Submissions
- ► July (1)
  - Economic uncertainty as a political weapon
- ► May (2)
  - Solve the mystery, win a free book
  - Obama's Focus
- ► March (1)
  - Work@Character
- ► February (1)
  - Packinghouse Poet
- ► January (1)
  - Moral luck

► 2010 (24)
- ► December (2)
  - The Bookery in Socorro
  - The Provinciality of the United States
- ► November (1)
  - The Consumer Used and Abused
- ► October (1)
  - A Peculiar Journey
- ► September (1)
  - Terror and Humanity
- ► August (1)
  - American Anima
- ► July (1)
  - Traveling Alone Together
- ► June (1)
  - Illegal is Illegal
- ► May (3)
- ► April (3)
- ► March (3)
- ► February (3)
- ► January (4)

► 2009 (49)
- ► December (4)
- ► November (4)
- ► October (4)
- ► September (3)
  - Diario de Oaxaca
  - Yankee Fan
- ► August (4)
- ► July (4)
- ► June (5)
- ► May (4)
- ► April (4)
- ► March (5)
- ► February (4)
- ► January (4)

► 2008 (9)
- ► December (4)
- ► November (5)

Chico Lingo's Guardian Mascot

Ocistar is his name, but he also answers to Mr. Malcriado, El Gatingo, and My Rrrrrrrr.