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In 2014, Quinones left the ''Los Angeles Times'' to "return to freelancing, writing for ''National Geographic'', ''Pacific Standard Magazine'', the ''New York Times,'' the ''Los Angeles Magazine'', and several other publications."<ref>{{cite web|title=About - Sam Quinones|url=http://www.samquinones.com/about/|publisher=Sam Quinones Official Website|accessdate=3 March 2017}}</ref>
In January 2017, Quinones was interviewed by Sally Wiggin from WTAE Pittsburgh. The two discussed his book ''Dreamland'' and the opioid epidemic Pennsylvania and other states are facing in the 21st century.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Wiggin|first1=Sally|title=State of Addiction: How did Pennsylvania find itself so deep in the opioid epidemic?|url=http://www.wtae.com/article/state-of-addiction-how-did-pennsylvania-find-itself-so-deep-in-the-opioid-epidemic/8612932|publisher=WTAE Pittsburgh|accessdate=8 February 2017}}</ref>
Writing for the ''Los Angeles Times'' in January 2017, Quinones penned an op-ed piece titled, "The Truth is Immigrants have let us live like Princes." In the article, he writes about the positive economic impact of immigrant workers on the Southern Californian region of the United States.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Quinones|first1=Sam|title=Op-Ed The truth is immigrants have let us live like princes|url=http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-quinones-immigration-and-consumer-culutre-20170129-story.html|publisher=LA Times|accessdate=31 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Quinones|first1=Sam|title=Sam Quinones: Consumer culture and its consequences|url=http://gulftoday.ae/portal/814c6fd8-c255-4fdf-881b-99ba6977cc37.aspx|publisher=The Gulf Today|accessdate=8 February 2017}}</ref>
===Books===
* ''True Tales from Another Mexico: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino and the Bronx'' (University of New Mexico Press, 2001) is a collection of non-fiction stories of [[Mexico]] on the margins and a country in transition. Among the stories are tales of a colony of drag queens as they prepare for Mexico's oldest gay beauty contest; the [[Michoacan]] village where everyone has made a life making popsicles; the bare-knuckle neighborhood of [[Tepito]]; the story of Aristeo Prado, the last ''valiente'' of his wild and violent rancho in Michoacan; the story of Jesus Malverde, the narcosaint of Sinaloa; [[Oaxacan]] Indian basketball players holding onto tradition in [[Los Angeles]]; the story of a lynching in a small [[Hidalgo (state)|Hidalgo]] town; and the only biography ever written of [[Chalino Sanchez]], the immigrant narcosinger gunned down after a show, who became a legend and probably the most influential musical figure to come out of Los Angeles in a generation.<ref>{{cite news|last=Dagoberto|first=Gilb|title=GO NORTH, YOUNG MEN / FREEDOM, AS MUCH AS MONEY, PROMPTS MEXICAN MIGRANTS TO TAKE GREAT RISKS|url=http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/GO-NORTH-YOUNG-MEN-FREEDOM-AS-MUCH-AS-MONEY-2600008.php|work=The San Francisco Chronicle|accessdate=May 23, 2013|date=April 22, 2007}}</ref>
* ''Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration'' (University of New Mexico Press, 2007), is a collection of non-fiction stories about Mexican immigrants, and their lives on both sides of the border, based on his reporting in Mexico. Stories include the Henry Ford of Velvet Painting in El Paso/Juarez; how a rich and vital opera scene emerged in the babbling border city of Tijuana; the season of a high school soccer team in [[Garden City, Kansas]]; and finally, how drug-trafficking [[Mennonites]] in [[Chihuahua (state)|Chihuahua]] ran [[Quinones]] out of Mexico. Threading through the book are the stories of a young construction worker named Delfino Juarez, who first hitched his future to Mexico City then, when it failed him, he moved north to Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite news|last=Arellano|first=Gustavo|title=The Road Oft Traveled|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2007/may/13/books/bk-arellano13|work=The Los Angeles Times|accessdate=May 23, 2013|date=May 13, 2007}}</ref>
* ''Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic'' (Bloomsbury Press, 2015) is story of the evolving [[opioid epidemic]] in Mexico and the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/journalist-and-author-sam-quinones-on-the-opioid-epidemic/Content?oid=1959392|title=Journalist and author Sam Quinones on the opioid epidemic|first=James|last=Lanigan|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.perrytribune.com/community/article_e9c52c5c-9398-5532-b089-ab3de2728de8.html|title=Grant provides funding for books at Perry County schools|publisher=}}</ref> Quinones describes the "explosion in heroin use and how one small Mexican town changed how heroin was produced and sold in America."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Roberts|first1=Russ|title=Sam Quinones on Heroin, the Opioid Epidemic, and Dreamland|url=http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/01/sam_quinones_on.html|website=Econtalk.org|accessdate=26 January 2017}}</ref>
*''The Virgin of the American Dream'' (2016) is a book of murals of the [[Virgin of Guadalupe]]. The murals are used to dissuade "tagging" of walls throughout Mexico.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ocweekly.com/arts/new-book-by-sam-quinones-highlights-virgin-of-guadalupe-murals-that-protect-walls-from-taggers-7747263|title=New Book by Sam Quinones Highlights Virgin of Guadalupe Murals that Protect Walls from Taggers|first=Gustavo|last=Arellano|date=15 December 2016|publisher=}}</ref>
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*[https://twitter.com/samquinones7?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Quinones on Twitter]
*[http://samquinones.com/reporters-blog/ Sam Quinone's blog]
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