Featured:
For Good Night Irene:
Los Angeles Times: “The Donut Dollies” of WWII: Novelist pays tribute to his mother and other unsung heroes
NPR Fresh Air with Maureen Corrigan: Luis Alberto Urrea pays tribute to WWII’s forgotten volunteers
Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Behind Enemy Lines with the Donut Dollies of WWII
New York Times: My Mother Returned From War A Changed Woman
Poets and Writers: Bringing the Joy: A Profile of Luis Alberto Urrea
For The House of Broken Angels:
• Fresh Air with Terry Gross
• Interview with Scott Simon NPR’s Weekend Edition
• The Millions essay: Unbroken Angel, Happy Birthday Absent Brother
• Mother Jones: How Novelist Luis Urrea Wore the Bastards Down
• Wall Street Journal essay: Message in a Bottle
• Entertainment Weekly: The House of Broken Angels Could Not Be More Timely
• NPR: House of Broken Angels Hums With Joy
• O magazine: 10 Titles to Pick Up Now
• People Magazine: Book of the Week
• BookPage: Top Fiction pick for March
• BookPage interview: with Omar El Akkad
• Publisher’s Weekly: Luis Alberto Urrea Tells a Quintessential Mexican American Story
• amNewYork: Topical family tale for all Americans
• Newsday: A clamorous, joyful family saga
• Dallas Morning News: Q & A
• Chicago Tribune: Epic family drama
• Latino Book Review: Interview with Luis Alberto Urrea
• San Diego Magazine: Luis Alberto Urrea on his New Cross-Cultural Book
• Best of March 2018: Amazon, Wall Street Journal, Harper’s Bazaar, Entertainment Weekly, Philadelphia Enquirer, Bustle, BBC, Nylon, PopSugar,———–• Into the Beautiful North is an NEA Big Read
• Bill Moyers interview Between Two Worlds — Life on the Border
• Into the Beautiful North receives Citation of excellence from American Library Association Rainbow Project
• 2009 Writers Symposium by the Sea: An Evening with Luis Urrea
• University of Washington Common Book: An evening with Luis Alberto Urrea
• NPR: Life Is An Act Of Literary Creation
• UCSB Reads 2017 Author Talk: Luis Alberto Urrea
• This American Life: Except For The Smell, I Think I Have A Crush On You
• The Hummingbird’s Daughter wins the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize 2006
• The Devil’s Highway is a Finalist, 2005 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction
• The Devil’s Highway wins the Lannan Literary Award
• The Devil’s Highway is Finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize
• Six Kinds of Sky is Forward Magazine Book of the Year 2002
• Nobody’s Son is the winner 1999 American Book Award
• Across the Wire is the Winner of the 1993 Christopher Award
• Across the Wire is a New York Times Notable Book
• Ghost Sickness is a Poetry from Western States Book Award winner
“It’s difficult to find comparisons to an author as original as Urrea, a kind of literary badass who still believes in love….He is a master storyteller with a rock-and-roll heart.” —NPR
“Urrea’s language is richly textured, creating a poetic fiction raised to the heights of a Gabriel García Márquez.” — Los Angeles Times
“Urrea’s writing is wickedly good—outrage tempered with concern channeled into deft prose.” —Kansas City Star
“Urrea is unstintingly, unironically, and unselfconsciously tender….His pages slip past effortlessly, with the amber glow of slides in a magic lantern.” —New York Times Book Review
“Urrea writes about U.S.-Mexican border culture with a tragic and beautiful intimacy that has no equal.” —Boston Globe
“Extraordinary…immensely entertaining….Urrea has accomplished the rarest of things in literature: He has created a world that stands on its own….He is a skilled acrobat, moving effortlessly between heartbreaking tragedy and genuine humor.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Like Urrea, we care deeply for his characters. He writes with compassion and humor and with a nod to the creeping darkness within us all.” —The Oregonian