His latest works include the Lowell Thomas Award-winning travel book, "Desert Memories"; a collection of essays, "Other Septembers, Many Americas"; a novel he wrote with his youngest son, Joaquín, "Burning City"; "Americanos: Los Pasos de Murieta"; and a new volume of memoirs, "Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile". In 2007, his musical, "Dancing Shadows", opened in Seoul, Korea. This collaboration with Eric Woolfson, the principal composer for the Alan Parsons Project, won five Korean “Tony” awards. In 2011, his play "Purgatorio" has its Spanish language premiere at the Teatro Español in Madrid, starring Viggo Mortensen and Carme Elias.