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FOCUS ON CAMPUS: Benjamin Alire Saenz

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Louie talks with local author Benjamin Alire Saenz, who recently won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his 2012 collection of short stories, "Everything Begins & Ends at the Kentucky Club."  Ben talks about his early desire to become a writer, and about the spiritual & career path that led him to El Paso.  He also discusses branching out from poetry & fiction into the Young Adult genre.  Aired April 5, 2013.

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