Valeria Luiselli

About this episode

Jordan Kisner interviews Valeria Luiselli about her work and perspectives on the U.S.-Mexico border and sound art.

Jordan sits down with Valeria Luiselli to talk about the U.S.-Mexico border, and in particular its origin point (or terminus) in the Pacific Ocean. They discuss Luiselli's forays into sound art with her new project "Echos from the Borderlands", her choice to set her next novel in Sicily, and the humor of whale song. Valeria Luiselli is the author of  Sidewalks  (2013),  Faces in the Crowd  (2014),  The Story of My Teeth  (2015),  Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions  (2017) and  Lost Children Archive  (2019). She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of DUBLIN Literary Award, two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, The Carnegie Medal, an American Book Award, and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Booker Prize. Her next book, a novel titled Beginning Middle End , will be published by Random House in July 2026. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Jordan Kisner

Guest: Valeria Luiselli

Topics covered

• U.S.-Mexico border
• sound art
• literature
• whale song
• novel writing

Keywords

• Valeria Luiselli
• U.S.-Mexico border
• sound art
• whale song
• literature

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Random House

Books & works: Echos from the Borderlands, Sidewalks, Faces in the Crowd, The Story of My Teeth, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, Lost Children Archive