Daniel Alarcon, one of America's Best Young Novelists

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I went to see my buddy and neighbor Daniel Alarcón read at City Lights bookstore this evening, I have known him for over a year and interviewed him twice, but sadly I had never attended a reading before. I was very impressed!  Daniel published his first novel in February 2007, entitled Lost City Radio. With the publication of Lost City Radio, he is off and running. His collection of short stories, War by Candlelight, was published two years ago to deservedly high praise. Daniel has an unusual background which you can hear all about in an interview I conducted with him in January 2007 on KPFA's HardKnock Radio, click here to hear it.

Daniel recently received the honor of being named a Best American Young Novelist by Granta . His bio reads - "Daniel Alarcón was born in Lima, Peru in 1977 and raised in the Southern United States. He is associate editor of Etiqueta Negra, a monthly magazine based in Lima. His short story collection, War by Candlelight (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins), was a finalist for the 2006 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. His first novel, Lost City Radio, is published by HarperCollins in the US and will be published in the UK by Fourth Estate
in July. He currently lives in Oakland, California, where he is the
Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College. Though hampered by a
nagging ankle injury, Alarcón still plays soccer three times a week,
striking fear into the hearts of defenders and goalkeepers everywhere."

Daniel Alarcón at City Lights Bookstore

from Left to Right: Favianna (me) and Daniel