Daniel Alarcón, a novelist and the co-founder of Radio Ambulante, has written for Harper's, California Sunday, and the New York Times Magazine.

“I’m a writer. I’ve written a bunch of books, and I care a lot about my sentences and my prose and all that. But would I be willing to defend my book in a Peruvian prison? That’s a litmus test I think a lot of writers I know would fail.”

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Alarcón on Longform

[3:00] Pop-Up Magazine

[3:00] "Rigoberto" (Harper’s • Jan 2012)

[7:00] War by Candlelight: Stories (Harper Perennial • 2006)

[9:00] "All Politics Is Local" (Harper’s • Feb 2012)

[15:00] At Night We Walk in Circles: A Novel (Riverhead Books • 2013)

[17:00] "Let’s Go, Country" (Harper’s • Sep 2006)

[18:00] Etiqueta Negra

[19:-0] "City of Clowns" (New Yorker • Jun 2003)

[19:00] "Grand Mall Seizure" (Alternet • Dec 2004)

[26:00] Lost City Radio (Harper Perennial • 2008)

[28:00] Radio Ambulante

[38:00] "#47 Quit Already!" (Reply All • Dec 2015)

[45:00] "Code Red" (New York Times Magazine • Aug 2015)

[47:00] "What Kind of Latino Am I" (Salon • May 2005)

[50:47] "The Contestant" (California Sunday • Oct 2014)

[50:47] "The Contestant" (Radio Ambulante • May 2014)

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