Robert Lopez is the author of two novels, Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River, and two story collections, Asunder and Good People. Among other places, his fiction has appeared in the American Reader, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, Hobart, Indiana Review, Literarian, Nerve, New York Tyrant, Vice, and the Norton anthology Sudden Fiction Latino. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches fiction writing at The New School, Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and the Solstice MFA Program at Pine Manor College.
New and upcoming books
Novels
Part of the World (2007)
Kamby Bolongo Mean River (2009)
All Back Full (2017)
A Better Class of People (2022)
The Best People (2025)
Kamby Bolongo Mean River (2009)
All Back Full (2017)
A Better Class of People (2022)
The Best People (2025)
Collections
Robert Lopez recommends
The Liquid Eye of a Moon (2024)
Uchenna Awoke
"In The Liquid Eye of a Moon, Uchenna Awoke casts a spell that is at once enchanting and haunting. An important story full of love and wonder, family and culture, strife and tribulation - this is not your typical debut novel. You are in the hands of a masterful storyteller, one whose grace and lyricism will win you over and then burrow deep inside the muck and marrow of your soul where it will remain for a long time."
Say This (2022)
Elise Levine
"Every page of Elise Levine's Say This is a meticulously crafted, crystalline work of high art. These two novellas, fragmented and fractured in a manner that perfectly captures our present reality, are sharp and poetic, suspenseful and engaging. Everything one requires of the best narrative fiction is here, all told in gorgeous prose that commands your attention at every turn."
Liars (2017)
Steven Gillis
"Steven Gillis' new novel, Liars, is what we've come to expect from this master storyteller. Liars epitomizes what Faulkner said all literature should be, the human heart in conflict with itself. Along the way you'll be dazzled by Gillis' fluid prose and wildly entertained at the human comedy playing out from beginning to end."
