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Valeria Luiselli
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Valeria Luiselli
Photograph © Alfredo Pelcastre
Valeria Luiselli is the author of Sidewalks (Coffee House); Faces in the Crowd, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction; The Story of My Teeth (both Granta), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Best Translated Book Award, and the Impac Prize 2017; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions (Coffee House), a finalist for both the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism; and Lost Children Archive (Knopf). In 2014, she received the 5 Under 35 prize from the National Book Foundation.

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Vol. 82
Works & Days
Spring 2024
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October 2, 2024
It is not a beautiful day in Mexico City unless you can see Popocatépetl. In this place, beauty is determined solely by whether or not the volcano breaches the nebulous smog like a visitation, by whether the eye can ascend its snow-covered face. When what was sensed but veiled yesterday is suddenly revealed today, it is, in the smallest way, a faith realized.
 
September 25, 2024
My eyes were already fixed on the face
Of My Lady, and my mind with them—
All other thoughts had been wiped away.

She wasn’t smiling; instead, she began:
“If I were smiling, you’d become
Like Semele when she was turned to ashes,
September 18, 2024
We were picnicking on the plains
when she emerged from the rushes.
She wore an apricot smock.
Her face was smeared with soot.
She said her name was Stina Groth.
A cloud of bats burst from the chimney
of a crumbling cottage behind her.
We asked her where home was.
She drew a circle in the silt with a twig.
The internationally renowned writer will read from her work.
Monday, October 21, 2024
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Chapel of the Holy Innocents