Manuel Munoz is celebrated as one of the foremost literary chroniclers of California's Central Valley. Northwestern University Press published his debut story collection, Zigzagger, in 2 3, and are delighted to announce that reprints of his second story collection and his novel will be joining the acclaimed TriQuarterly imprint. Each reissue includes a foreword that celebrates the enduring, empathic power of Muñoz's fiction. Muñoz has been recognized with a Whiting Award, three O. Henry Awards, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, two selections in Best American Short Stories and, most recently, a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship. His frequently anthologized work has appeared in The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, Electric Literature, ZYZZYVA, and Freeman's. A native of Dinuba, California, he lives in Tucson.
Foreword: Peering into Muñoz's Hitchcockian Thriller, What You See in the
Dark: Mystery and Moviemaking Meet in Bakersfield, California, by Charles
Taylor
Part One
Part Two
Gracias
