SELECTED ARTICLES/ESSAYS/EXCERPTS/BOOK REVIEWS/INTRODUCTIONS
- “San Miguel de Allende: The Soul of Mexico” (Introduction), Schiffer 2023
- “Denmark al Diente” (essay), Perceptive Travel 2020
- Novel excerpt, “Valparaiso,” 15 Anthology 2019
- “The Bats” (excerpt), Solamente en San Miguel 2018
- “Dangerous Climate” (interview), PEN America, 2017
- “The Refugees” (essay), Los Angeles Times 2016
- “Valparaiso” (excerpt), Sol magazine 2012
- “El Gringo Jarocho” (excerpt, in Spanish), Revista UNO 2011
- “Eronga” (excerpt), Sol Magazine 2010
- “Art and Sol” (article), the New York Times 2008
- “The City That Silver Built” (article), The New York Times 2006
- “Found in Translation” (review), The Los Angeles Times 2006
- “Bamboo Shadows” (essay), Kyoto Journal 2004
- “Mexico’s New Moment” (article), Conde Nast Traveler 2002
- The Art of Neon Park (book introduction), Last Gasp/La Luz Jesus 2001
- “Our Living National Treasure” (review), The Los Angeles Times 2001
- “Our Man in Hanoi” (article), Conde Nast Traveler 2001
- “Burma” (reportage), Tricycle Magazine 2001
- “The House on Flower Street” (excerpt), The Guardian (London) 1999
- Mexicolor (book introduction and text), Chronicle Books 1998
- Secular and Sacred (book introduction), U. of New Mexico Press 1992
- “Atotonilco: L’extase du bizarre,” (essay, in French) La Mode en Peinture (Paris) 1989
TEACHING/READINGS/APPEARANCES/AWARDS
- Featured speaker, San Miguel Literary Sala, 2016
- Reading, “Fiction Madness,” Guanajuato, Mexico 2014
- Featured speaker, San Miguel PEN Lecture Series, 2001, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2013
- Featured speaker, The Writer’s Sala, 2011, 2012
- Writer in Residence, Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, 2010
- Panelist, Los Angeles Times Book Festival 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007
- Writer in Residence, Book Passage Travel Writers’ Conference 2000, 2001, 2006, 2007
- Keynote Speaker, San Miguel Writers’ Conference 2007
- Southern California Booksellers Award, Best Book of the Year 2006 for Mexican Days
- Los Angeles Times Notable Book of the Year 2003 for Native State
- Literary Guild Selection 1985 for Opium
- New York Times Notable Book of the Year 1981 for Canary
- Editors’ Choice selection 1977 for “The Hustler and the Heiress” (short story)
MUSIC/FILM/LYRICS/PERFORMANCES/SELECTED ALBUM NOTES
- Lisa Rich High Wire, album 2019, feat. songs (with Chick Corea): Highwire, Contessa, Bud Powell, The Jinn
- Film script, “Night Cry” 2012 (dir. Deborah Turbeville)
- Selected Lyrics (with Chick Corea):
- “High Wire” (Album: Echoes of an Era with Chaka Khan, Stanley Clarke)
- “Isfahan” (Album: Splendido Hotel with Al Di Meola)
- “Samba L.A.” (Album: Tap Step with Flora Purim, Chick Corea)
- Live performances (text and music) with Chick Corea, National Public Radio 1984, 1985
- Album liner notes: Remembering Bud Powell (Grammy nominee, 1997), Velvet Underground, Allen Ginsberg, Billie Holliday, Hank Williams, Herbie Hancock
- Film score, composer: “Make a Face” 1971