It is awarded annually for “the best book of any genre translated into English and published in the United States”.
A 2013 USC Annenberg Getty Fellow, and on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle.
He was inducted at the Texas Institute of Letters, and was the 2015 Fall Visiting Writer at Our Lady of the Lake University.
His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Texas Observer, Texas Monthly, Film Quarterly, San Francisco Chronicle, and Andy Warhol's Interview.
He is a former book editor of the San Antonio Express-News.