‘The Chicano Time Traveler’
Daniel Chacón's latest short story collection, The Last Philosopher in Texas, shows how fiction and superstition often mix with reality in the lives of many Chicanos.
Daniel Chacon
Daniel Chacón’s latest book is The Last Philosopher in Texas: Fictions and Superstitions (2024), and he's also author of the the novel, The Cholo Tree (2017) and of Hotel Juárez: Stories, Rooms, and Loops (2013), which won the Pen Oakland Award for Literary Excellence and the Tejas NACCS Award for Best Book of Fiction. His fiction has appeared in the anthologies Latino Boom; Latino Sudden Fiction; Lengua Fresca: Latinos Writing on the Edge; Caliente: The Best Erotic Writing in Latin American Fiction; and Best of the West 2009: New Stories from the West Side of the Missouri.
Articles by Daniel Chacon