Alberto Chimal

Mexican writer Alberto Chimal (b. 1970) is the author of the short story collections Los Atacantes, Grey, and Manda fuego (Colima Prize 2014) and the novel La torre y la jardin, which was a finalist for the Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 2013. His most recent book is the children's story El juego más antiguo (2017). He blogs at lashistorias.com.mx.

May 2018

A Periodic Table of Books

Iron, Uranium, Calcium, Gold, Praseodymium, Rubidium, Stontium, and Lead books. Illustration by Shayna Pond {CR} Chromium books that are all shiny surface....
July 2013

The Cities of the Ordered Chain

Alberto Chimal published these stories in Spanish as “An Alphabet of Twitter-Stories: A Study by Horacio Kustos” (@hkustos) in summer 2012. In a self-interview Chimal published...