J. David Gonzalez

J. David Gonzalez is a writer and former bookseller living in Los Angeles. He is also the publisher of Breaking and Entering, a quarterly journal dedicated to stories that explore the boundaries of genre fiction.

These Discomforting Truths: On Yxta Maya Murray’s “The World Doesn’t Work that Way, but It Could”

J. David Gonzalez reviews Yxta Maya Murray’s new collection of short stories, “The World Doesn’t Work that Way, but It Could.”...

J. DAVID GONZALEZ

FICTION

Be Bludgeoned with the Wonder: An Interview with Kawai Strong Washburn on “Sharks in the Time of Saviors”

J. David Gonzalez talks to writer Kawai Strong Washburn about his debut novel, "Sharks in the Time of Saviors."...

J. DAVID GONZALEZ

FICTION

Sacred Horror and the Border Imagination: On Fernando A. Flores’s “Tears of the Trufflepig”

"Tears of the Trufflepig" is a narcocorrido for the Island of Dr. Moreau. It’s Roberto Bolaño and Gloria Anzaldúa dropping acid and staring into the sun....

J. DAVID GONZALEZ

FICTION

Staring at the Sun: Adam Gopnik’s “Rise of Florida Crime Fiction.”

J. DAVID GONZALEZ

NOIR