When Daniel Alarcón toured the world for his first novel, the 2009 International Literature Award-winning "Lost City Radio," he spoke with many people in rural South America and realized something ...

San Francisco novelist Daniel Alarcón has a T-shirt, given to him by a relative, which reads, "I'm Famous in Peru." It's ironic fashion, but also partially true. Even though he's been anointed by the ...

In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Sam revisits his 2017 chat with author and Radio Ambulante host, Daniel Alarcón. They discuss Alarcón's award-winning book of short stories, The King Is ...

In his Nobel lecture, Mario Vargas Llosa wrote that good literature builds bridges between peoples and “unites us beneath the languages, beliefs, habits, customs, and prejudices that separate us.” He ...

Daniel Alarcón's (@DanielGAlarcon) new book of short stories, "The King Is Always Above The People," deals closely with immigration and the Latino experience. Alarcón talks to Sam about his own life ...

On the last page of Daniel Alarcón's new novel, someone asks the narrator, "Do you understand?" The narrator replies, “I do.” Honest readers may have a different response. But a touch of bewilderment ...

What if love of country could be simpler again? On The Athletic’s “Pablo Torre Finds Out,” the author and World Cup podcaster Daniel Alarcón offers a unified theory of football. Daniel Alarcón and ...

The Peruvian-born novelist Daniel Alarcón has become one of the most important modern voices for the countries south of the border. His first major book was the ambitious novel Lost City Radio (2007), ...

The most recent issue of Zoetrope: All Story, a quarterly magazine devoted to short fiction and one-act plays, showcases the writing of young Latin American authors. It was co-edited by the ...

The most memorable magic in Daniel Alarcon’s engaging and illuminating new novel, “At Night We Walk in Circles,” comes when his three main characters, all actors, perform on various stages in their ...

The figure of the sad clown is, they say, cliché. But as clichés go, it’s a rather potent one that draws on Freudian notions of repression and the human subconscious to evoke a sense of dread and ...