Episode 39: Erika L. Sánchez

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Rachel Zucker speaks with Erika L. Sánchez about her first book of poems, her first YA novel (currently shortlisted for the National Book Award), her experience as a sex advice columnist, how her manuscript became a book, writing unlikeable characters, shame, obsessions, sex, making things up in poems and prose, authenticity, feminism, Buddhism, and DACA.

Books by Erika L. Sánchez

• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Knopf, 2017)

• Lessons on Expulsion (Graywolf, 2017)

Other Books and Writers Mentioned in the Episode

• Dana Levin

• Morgan Parker

• Jennifer Tamayo

• Danez Smith’s Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf, 2017)

• “Anastasia & Sandman” by Larry Levis from Elegy

• Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark (Haymarket, 2016)

• Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Little, Brown, 2009)

• Celia Perez’s The First Rule of Punk (Viking Books, 2017)

Other Relevant Links

• Canto Mundo

• Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences

• Judithe Hernández

• Lisa Simpson

• Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships

• Stavanger International Festival of Literature and Freedom of Speech

• 2013 was a big year for feminism, but the movement still alienates minorities published by The Guardian

• Fornicating While Latina: Why I Was Deeply Ashamed of Sex and How I Got Over It published by AlterNet