Today we can confirm that Chipotle did not ask acclaimed Mexican America writer MANUEL MUÑOZ to participate in their Cultivating Thoughts series. Manuel Muñoz: NEA fellow, Whiting Writers Award, shortlisted for the Frank OConnor International Short Story Award, PEN/OHenry Award and author of four books, including the collection Zigzagger (Northwestern University Press) and most recently, the novel What You See in the Dark (Algonquin). His work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Glimmer Train, Epoch, and Boston Review, and has aired on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. He has served as a juror, with A.M. Homes and Christine Schutt, for the 2011 PEN/O. Henry Awards. He is currently serving, with Madison Smartt Bell and Achy Obejas, as a judge for the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Awards. A Harvard graduate who earned his MFA at Cornell, he teaches in the University of Arizonas creative writing program. Here is a link to his latest novel What You See in the Dark which received this starred reviewed in Publishers Weekly: Muñoz, the author of two short story collections (The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue and Zigzagger), uses the second-person voice to draw the reader into his stellar first novel. In 1959, the Director (i.e., Alfred Hitchcock) arrives in Bakersfield, Calif., to film Psycho, along with the Actress (i.e., Janet Leigh), whos struggling to get a handle on the character she will portray. Providing counterpoint to the events surrounding the making of the iconic Hollywood film, including the search for a motel to serve as the exterior of the Bates Motel, is the story of locals Dan Watson and Teresa Garza, whose doomed love affair ends in murder. The author brilliantly presents the Actresss inner thoughts, while he handles the violence with a subtlety worthy of Hitchcock himself. The lyrical prose and sensitive portrayal of the crimes ripple effect in the small community elevate this far beyond the typical noir.
Posted on: Sat, 31 May 2014 14:30:02 +0000
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