Episode 184: Daniel Alarcon

Published: March 16, 2016, 2:36 p.m.

b'Daniel Alarc\\xf3n, a novelist and the co-founder of Radio Ambulante, has written for Harper\'s, California Sunday, and the New York Times Magazine.\\n\\n\\u201cI\\u2019m a writer. I\\u2019ve written a bunch of books, and I care a lot about my sentences and my prose and all that. But would I be willing to defend my book in a Peruvian prison? That\\u2019s a litmus test I think a lot of writers I know would fail.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp, Audible, and Home Chef for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n\\nShow Notes:\\n@DanielGAlarcon\\ndanielalarcon.org\\nAlarc\\xf3n on Longform\\n[3:00] Pop-Up Magazine\\n[3:00] "Rigoberto" (Harper\\u2019s \\u2022 Jan 2012)\\n[7:00] War by Candlelight: Stories (Harper Perennial \\u2022 2006)\\n[9:00] "All Politics Is Local" (Harper\\u2019s \\u2022 Feb 2012)\\n[15:00] At Night We Walk in Circles: A Novel (Riverhead Books \\u2022 2013)\\n[17:00] "Let\\u2019s Go, Country" (Harper\\u2019s \\u2022 Sep 2006)\\n[18:00] Etiqueta Negra\\n[19:-0] "City of Clowns" (New Yorker \\u2022 Jun 2003)\\n[19:00] "Grand Mall Seizure" (Alternet \\u2022 Dec 2004)\\n[26:00] Lost City Radio (Harper Perennial \\u2022 2008)\\n[28:00] Radio Ambulante\\n[38:00] "#47 Quit Already!" (Reply All \\u2022 Dec 2015)\\n[45:00] "Code Red" (New York Times Magazine \\u2022 Aug 2015)\\n[47:00] "What Kind of Latino Am I" (Salon \\u2022 May 2005)\\n[50:47] "The Contestant" (California Sunday \\u2022 Oct 2014)\\n[50:47] "The Contestant" (Radio Ambulante \\u2022 May 2014)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'