Chilean author Alejandro Zambra, dubbed by the New Yorker as "the new star of Latin American Literature," will read from and discuss My Documents, a collection of captivating, skillfully crafted, and much praised minimalist stories drawn from the age of computers and the legacy of Pinochet. Joining him in conversation is his editor at McSweeney's Daniel Gumbiner, and the authors Francisco Goldman and Valeria Luiselli. 

Alejandro Zambra is a Chilean novelist and poet. He is the author of three novels: Ways of Going Home, The Private Lives of Trees, and Bonsai, and the short story collection My Documents. In Chile he has twice received the National Council on Books and Reading prize for the best novel of the year, among others prizes. His writing has also appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Tin House, Harper’s, and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. In 2010, he was selected as one of the Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists by Granta. He recently became a Fellow at the Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars of the New York Public Library where he will be working on a new book.  

Francisco Goldman is the author of Say Her Name (2011), winner of the Prix Femina Etranger, and of The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle (2014) and four other books. He has received a Cullman Center Fellowship and a Berlin Prize, among other awards and honors.  His work has appeared The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Believer, and numerous other publications.  Every year he teaches one semester at Trinity College in Hartford, Ct., and then hightails it back to Mexico City.

Daniel Gumbiner is a writer and the former managing editor of McSweeney's. He lives in Berkeley, CA. 

Valeria Luiselli was born Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. A novelist (Faces in the Crowd) and essayist (Sidewalks), her work has been translated into many languages and has appeared in publications including the New York Times, the New Yorker, Granta, and McSweeney’s. In 2014, Faces in the Crowd was the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award. Her forthcoming novel, The Story of My Teeth, will be available from Coffee House Press in fall 2015.

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