Heriberto Yépez is a “post-Mexican” journalist and is the author of Here is Tijuana!, the narcoliteratura border novel Al otro lado, and most recently, La increíble hazaña de ser mexicano.
See Yépez and fellow Mexican author Yuri Herrera at Herrera at Literature of Cross-Border Reality, Thursday, Oct. 11 at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts where they will discuss the reality of life and literatures on both sides of the border between Mexico and California.
1. What is your favorite book?- Ficciones by Borges.
- 2. Who is your favorite writer?
- Jorge Luis Benjamin, sometimes referred to as Walter Borges.
- 3. If the answers to 1 & 2 are different, why?
- Not even Borges and Benjamin were perfect.
- 4. How old were you when you were first published?
- I followed Julio Torri’s advice on that. For those of you who don’t know who Torri is, it’s impossible to explain here.
- 5. What writing style do you most abhor
- “Realism.”
- 6. What is your favorite writing cliché?
- “I.”
- 7. What is your favorite word?
- Moteotia!
- 8. When and how do you write?
- When I can.
- 9. What is your greatest fear when you first turn in a manuscript?
- That it will end up being published.
- 10. In what era do you wish you’d been born?
- 1521.
- 11. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
- “We.”
- 12. Which talent would you most like to have?
- Making more money.
- 13. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
- Actually making some money out of writing.
- 14. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
- The migrant.
- 15. How would you like to die?
- Fascinated.
