Mexico City’s Pink Taxis Give Women a Ride on the Safer Side
February 8th, 2010
I wrote about the city of Puebla’s controversial all-women taxis for the February/March issue of BUST magazine.
Check out the article here: pink-taxis-in-bust
Mexican High
Liza Monroy's debut novel was published by Spiegel & Grau, a division of Random House.
See more here.
Mexican High reviewed in the Foreign Service Journal
February 8th, 2010
Review of Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors by Lisa Appiganesi
February 7th, 2010From December/January’s issue of BUST:
bust-book-review
The Faster Times: first in a series
November 9th, 2009
Jonathan Lethem profile
October 16th, 2009
My profile of Jonathan Lethem is the cover story of the November/December issue of Poets & Writers magazine. It’s not available online so I won’t post it until the issue goes off the stands, but a little preview can be found here. Check it out in the magazine if you can!
Inaugurating the Celebrate Mexico Now Festival
September 9th, 2009
At last night’s reading and signing to kick off this year’s Celebrate Mexico Now, I met alumni from my own Mexican high school, and even the Consul General of Mexico, seen after the jump at his speech afterwards. Such a fun evening and now I can’t wait to check out the festival’s events happening throughout the month…up next for me, El Grito in Brooklyn. And probably another one of those jalapeno-infused margaritas.
in today’s NY Daily News
September 2nd, 2009Celebrate Mexico Now
September 1st, 2009
Some news I’m excited about: I’m reading on the opening night of the Celebrate Mexico Now festival in New York City, with a reading and discussion at the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at NYU.
Getting back to it
September 1st, 2009
Qu’est-ce que c’est? Read on…
new interview, HTMLgiant
August 3rd, 2009Catherine Lacey recently interviewed me for literary blog HTMLgiant. We talked about approaches to writing a first novel, why fiction trumped memoir, and what happens when people think your novel’s characters are them. I divulged what I’m doing to my second book, and another no-longer-secret thing related to my last post. Check it out here.