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     Reviews                        
  • The New York Times Book Review: Generations of Exiles Collide in Post-Katrina New Orleans
  • The Washington Post: Bibliophiles love the mystery of a missing manuscript. 'The Lost Book of Adana Moreau' is just what they're looking for.
  • The Chicago Tribune: 'The Lost Book of Adana Moreau' marks Chicago novelist Michael Zapata's strong debut.
  • NPR: Multiple Universes Fill the Pages of 'The Lost Book of Adana Moreau' 
  • Newcity: Dreaming to Save a Life
  • BookPage STARRED Review
  • ​Booklist STARRED Review
  • Library Journal STARRED Review
  • Somos En Escrito: Neither love nor imagination can be eradicated
  • Jewish Book Council Review
  • Ploughshares: Breaking the Borders of Memories, Ghosts, and Shadows in The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
  • Tor: Every Story is a Science Fiction Story to Someone 
  • Little Village: Book Review of The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
  • Jackson Free Press: Exploring Alternate Worlds Within a Contemporary Space
  • ​Publishers Weekly Review
  • Kirkus Review 

         Interviews
  • NPR/WWNO The Reading Life with Susan Larson
  • Chicago magazine: Local Author's Debut is a Novel About a Novel
  • The Chicago Tribune: Meet 5 new Chicago writers whose debuts you'll want to read this winter
  • ​BOMB: The Novel is a Form that Allows for Chaos, Katy Simpson Smith Interviewed by Michael Zapata
  • Chicago Review of Books: Fiction for a New-New World 
  • The Times-Picayune: Michael Zapata confronts a book tour cancellation in one of his favorite places, New Orleans
  • Jewish Book Council: Authors at the Table Conversation & Conversation Part II 
  • Third Coast Review: Wait for the Empire to Come Home
  • Los Angeles Public Library: Interview with an Author
  • Another Chicago Magazine: What ended up on the page was this sort of origin myth making
  • Thacker Mountain Radio  
  • Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon
  • LIt Hub: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers
  • Writers' Voices with Monica and Caroline
  • The Other Stories
  • Writer Unboxed: Across Time and Continents
  • ​New Books Network 
  • Read Learn Live Podcast
  • Eye 94 on Lumpen Radio 
  • WYPL Book Talk 
  • ​AFPL Journal 

         Essays/Book Recommendations
  • Tor.com, Unstable Reality: Latin America's Genre-Bending Traditions
  • Electric Literature, 10 Books That Were Almost Lost to History
  • The Author's Guild: Author Recommends
 
     Press   
  • NPR Best Book of 2020
  • BookPage Best Book of 2020: Fiction 
  • Latino Stories 2020 Top Ten "New" Latinx Authors
  • A.V. Club Best of 2020 So Far:
  • BookPage Best Book of the Year (so far)
  • A Library Journal Best Winter/Spring Debut of 2020
  • The Millions Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2020 Book Preview
  • Boston Globe: Booked Solid: The Most Anticipated Books of 2020
  • Washington Independent Review of Books: Not Another "Most Anticipated Books of 2020" List! 
  • Book Riot - Absolute Beginners: 20 Must-Read Debut Novels of 2020
  • Star Trek: 20 2020 Sci-Fi Book Reads Based on Your Favorite Star Trek Character
  • Tor: Cover Reveal and Excerpt 
  • Electric Literature: All the Presidential Candidates Need to Read These Books About Climate Disaster
  • Best of February 2020: Salon, Lit Hub , Vol 1. Brooklyn, and Chicago Review of Books


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