Oscar Casares has earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Copernicus Society of America, and the Texas Institute of Letters. His collection of stories, Brownsville, was selected by the American Library Association as a Notable Book of 2004. His first novel, Amigoland, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and was later selected by the 2010 Mayor’s Book Club in Austin for that year’s citywide reading campaign.
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