Born in Reynosa, Mexico, and raised in a trailer just north of the Rio Grande, Fernando A. Flores is a college dropout, former barista, and current employee at Austin’s Alienated Majesty bookstore. He’s also one of the most accomplished of a new generation of fiction writers in the state. His new novel, Brother Brontë, is his fourth book and third with storied New York publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, following 2019’s Tears of the Trufflepig and 2022’s Valleyesque. Once part of the Rio Grande Valley punk rock scene, Flores has, on the page, found strange and original music in surreal depictions of his old stomping grounds. We sat down with him to discuss the real-world currents that feed into his far-out fiction.TM: Your day job…
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