Profiles

For those using Manuel's work in the classroom, a list of podcasts, print interviews, essays, and bio information about Manuel is below:

 

Podcasts/Interviews

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In Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates (in celebration of the New Literary Project's 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize; recorded in May 2023)

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Queens Public Library (useful to classes that are reading The Consequences, as each story is given a capsule discussion; recorded in September 2023)

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1-Week Critique (craft interview on revision, especially useful for students reading "Anyone Can Do It")

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Latino Book Review podcast (Feb 2023)

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Book Public/Texas Public Radio  podcast (Dec 2022)

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London's Brick Lane Bookshop podcast (Nov 2022)

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Aloud/Los Angeles Public Library (in celebration of The Penguin Book of the Modern Short Story, John Freeman moderates a conversation with George Saunders, Sandra Cisneros, and Manuel)  

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Essays and Author Interviews

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The Common, a transcription of an interview with Helena María Viramontes, about the shared, lasting connections to labor and fieldwork (recorded in summer 2023 and transcribed for September 2023 publication)

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World Literature Today, interviewed by Renee H. Shea (Oct 2022)

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LitHub, interviewed by Jane Ciabattari (Oct 2022)

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Contemporary Literature Vol 62 Issue 3  a lengthy interview, conducted by Rafael Pérez-Torres over a two-year period, in an academic journal from the University of Wisconsin Press (accessible via university libraries or site registration)

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"Writing the Wrong," The Indigo Press (Oct 2022)

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LitHub, "Manuel Muñoz on Trying and Failing to Tell the Story of His Biological Father" (Oct 2022)

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Profiles

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Harvard Magazine ("Echoes of the Central Valley")

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Creosote Journal ("Seeing Through the Dark")

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Poets & Writers ("Manuel Muñoz Directs Arizona MFA Program")

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(photo: with lifelong mentor and champion of many, Helena María Viramontes, San Antonio, 2011)

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