Reviews
Interviews
Essays/Book Recommendations
Press
- 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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