Maybe it's because he doesn't have cable - and his TV set cost $60. At 28, Alarcón's stunning collection, War by Candlelight (HarperCollins) was published. With this year came the coolly heartbreaking novel Lost City Radio, and if he hasn't been called the voice of a generation a zillion times since, our counting is off. "I never considered that this wouldn't happen," he says. "It was just stupid confidence. Worked out though, I guess." He spends his time playing soccer, listening to Charles Mingus and Eddie Palmieri - and writing like we're at the desperate end of all the ways things have ever been. "I want," says Alarcón, with a bracing lack of irony, "to portray some of the truth and beauty and horror of what it means to be alive right now." And we'll be reading. For more interviews from our Juice list, click here.
FAVORITE ARTICLE OF CLOTHING:
I have a lot of affection for this red head wrap that every girl I ever dated said looks ridiculous. Like Linus's little blanket.
PERSON I ADMIRE MOST/PERSON WHO TAUGHT ME HOW TO HAVE JUICE:
I've had a lot of mentors. Francisco Goldman is one. He is fearless as an artist and reporter, and a model to follow.
5 YEARS FROM NOW, MY GOAL IS...
I want to write books that you'll remember. Books that I'm proud of.
BIGGEST PROBLEM FACING OUR GENERATION:
The coming environmental apocalypse will trump all issues of race and class. The fact that everyone's going to be affected by that problem is either going to create a global war, or push us to see beyond those things. When we all don't know where we can get a glass of water.
FAVORITE BOOK, AND WHY:
Most recently? Savage Detectives by Roberto Balano from Chile. It is an audacious and beautiful way to tell a story- the wandering and displacement that happened to a certain generation of Latin Americans.
FAVORITE MOVIE, AND WHY:
The Piano Teacher. It's the worse date movie. If you saw it, there would be no second date.
August 07, 2007 @ 12:18 pm
Daniel Alarcon: The Storyteller
The author of War by Candlelight and Lost City Radio. From our 2007 Juice list.
Article tags: Cesar Abraham Vallejo, Charles Minugs, Daniel Alarcon, Danyel Smith, Eddie Almieri, Lost City Radio, War By Candlelight
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