- Ilan Stavans’s 1993 interview with Felipe Alfau has been dramatized by Amber Reed (as part of the Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Your Own Blood adaptations of Locos), on YouTube; embedding unfortunately disabled.
- And a William Gass review in Harper’s.
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