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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