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s published several novels and short novels among which are la strategia dell ariete mondadori 2007 the first ever published copyleft novel for mondadori and delta blues verdenero 2010 a cover of conrad s heart of darkness he also writes short novels reportage and essays on his own the chessboard s glory is a bonsai novel written in english and is part of a large work in progress titled cimiteri graveyards link 1969 los angeles as shown on french tv september 13 2012 uncategorized leave a comment check out the atlantic cities link here javier marías portada de penguin classics august 28 2012 uncategorized leave a comment penguin gets on board with javier marías javiermariasblog penguin classics this month penguin modern classics introduces to its list spain s most important contemporary writer javier marías view original post a graffiti wall made by a collaboration across 9300 km video link august 24 2012 uncategorized leave a comment this video 9300 km follows a collaborative graffiti wall made by artists reiz and defco while 9300 kilometers apart from each other the former in paris and the latter in saint denis de la réunion an island in the indian ocean trust us it s worth a view click the link below http vimeo com 46869776 director reiz defco framing reiz zinc bodgä defco editing reiz defco post production defco 2012 colorcircusprod thoughts on niceness in literary blogging august 14 2012 meta leave a comment against enthusiasm jacob silverman s article in slate last week you can read it here or by clicking the image above had me thinking about the ways in which online culture affects how we read literature these days silverman suggests that it is harder to read negative book reviews these days and most reviews are recommendations rather than critical appraisals the former in particular might be true and it is a point that deserves consideration what should the role of literary criticism be particularly in the online universe should reviewers spend time reviewing books that they genuinely dislike or does the choice to write a review already represent a type of criticism in the form of curation indeed at global graffiti we generally do not give space to reviews of texts that we dislike instead we choose to focus space time and energy on presenting reviews of and excerpts from works that we hope to bring to our readers attention especially those that are not published by large presses with powerful marketing machines silverman s idea that online venues create an atmosphere of overwhelming niceness when it comes to literary criticism however seems rather simplistic while silverman broaches several interesting points his overall analysis is flawed in a way brilliantly parsed by the crew over at npr s pop culture happy hour check out their podcast here issue no 7 summer 2012 july 30 2012 uncategorized leave a comment kwets barcelona 2012 guatemalan singer songwriter ricardo arjona has famously speculated about the differences between the north and south of the world considering the social economic and cultural ramifications of a world turned upside down in his song si el norte fuera el sur if the north were the south in this seventh issue of global graffiti we are happy to share with you a couple of works that consider the role of north south divides the first is alvo lalo an excerpt from john washington s novel dustmarch this piece takes readers on two friends journey north as they walk and talk testing the limits of their solidarity in the liminal space of the mexican desert a landscape reminiscent of beckett or sartre the second piece is giulia po s interview with italian author maria paola colombo winner of this year s flaiano prize for her novel il negative dell amore the negative of love the author discusses her invocation of the divide between northern and southern italy as both a concrete social and economic division in the lives of her two protagonists as well as a metaphor for larger questions of individual identity we also have some pieces that consider geographical divides from alternative perspectives the first of these is erik raschke s berneria an exploration into the elusive history of the arctic island of berneria where the inhabitants have vanished and left behind only journal entries and fragmentary tales of their life in the utopia colony the second is andrea labinger s short story laundry in which significant periods in the chronology and landscape of a woman s life are recalled through the seemingly mundane task of doing laundry in addition we are happy to feature two poems by amy uyematsu including a brilliant piece titled found poem echoes from zuccotti park which uses utterances from a vanity fair piece to compose a new vision of the occupy movement a review of frequent global graffiti contributor angelina muñiz huberman s novel a mystical journey recently published in english translation harold bascom s red birds haiku series featuring the guyanese artist s visual and verbal consideration of the effects of modernity on nature and carl anderson s window to the caribbean a visually enticing homage to the region s cultural heritage and diversity in this issue you will also see the artwork of kwets in a few of the posts including this one hailing from barcelona the spanish graffiti writer trained in design and illustration loves to mix wild style with 3d or design concepts we hope that you enjoy our summer issue marking two years of global graffiti we are also excited to announce an exciting change to our format global graffiti will be shifting to blog format in august 2012 you will still be able to see the same wonderful content but we will be posting more often and including content such as links we will still share interviews book reviews dispatches fiction poetry and visual art featured posts solicit contributions subjects varied make sure to check in to the site often or subscribe in order to get updates on new posts alvo lalo july 30 2012 fiction issue no 7 july 2012 1 comment john washington one guy when he walks el chino said one guy can stray all over the place one guy can wander especially in the desert and i know i ve been walking in the desert but when you got two guys walking it s harder for them to stray because they keep each other on a leash a little bit sort of like a flock a flock goes straight because there s so many animals in it the animals balance each other all the mistakes get balanced you know what i mean like a straight line one guy can t draw a line very good but a bunch of guys all drawing together can draw it straight on now these two guys the guys who were walking who were keeping each other from wandering their names were alvo and lalo alvo was a little older than lalo but they were pretty close they were walking for a long time and kept thinking that they were lost but you know you can t be lost unless you know where you re going first these guys weren t walking to el norte it wasn t like that they didn t know why they were walking maybe they were walking north but it wasn t like that they were just out there you know you know how sometimes you can t help being out there can t help being out in the desert like when you lift your head up or you put your head down and it s in a desert and there s nobody and there s nothing and you re there in the middle of that that s how it was and alvo was older than lalo but they weren t father and son they were too close in age about ten years apart ten or twelve years an age difference that means they couldn t be father and son and they probably wouldn t even be brothers and they probably aren t friends either they wouldn t be friends they weren t actually they weren t friends alvo would never call lalo his friend lalo though he would call alvo anything anything except father because they were too close for that but it wouldn t matter their age was like their leash that kept them together that kept them walking straight walking straight where neither of them would have went by themselves because by themselves they would have been wandering but then it got more complicated because the imagination is the opposite of a leash and that s what these two guys had still imagination the imagination is more like a whip than a leash or like a gun to your head you know because you can t walk very straight with a gun to your head or maybe you can but only because there is someone holding the gun but there s not always someone holding the gun you know sometimes there s just a gun just floating there straight against your head and the imagination will make you wander a little bit but also make you think you aren t wandering you know it s dangerous and so alvo and lalo started talking about where they were going and one of them said that he thought he heard something about how good the place where they were going was and the other was like yeah i heard that too and one of them said if he knew what he thought he knew then they were walking toward el norte and the other said yeah that he had heard a lot about that place and it went on like this and pretty soon they knew exactly where they were going you know how that can happen like a flock like a flock with imagination but then lalo the younger one he started falling behind every few minutes alvo had to slow down or turn around and wait for lalo to catch up but lalo wasn t that far behind not far enough for alvo to sit down so alvo just slowed down for a few minutes and turned around to look back and this made the talking difficult they would start talking and then lalo would start falling behind and they would have to stop talking while alvo paused and waited for lalo to catch up and it went on like that their walking setting their conversation giving it spaces and you know what that does to the imagination it makes it worse and pretty soon they didn t only know where they were going but they couldn t wait to get there you know because of the imagination because of the gun but lalo kept slowing down and alvo had to stop to wait for him and soon lalo was limping and they weren t smiling at each other anymore and they didn t have to talk either because they both knew it all and they only had to say and the wages up there and the women and the trucks and the fields and the buildings and the women and that was all they needed to say just a few words because their imagination filled in the rest and so did the gun it filled it all in for them so soon alvo didn t want to wait anymore and lalo kept slowing down and so alvo was saying hurry up if you ever want to get there and what s taking you so long and you ain t ever gonna get there limping like that but lalo s limp got worse and worse and you know what a limp does to the imagination it makes it big it makes everything else seem better and you know what that does to the limp makes it worse so lalo kept slowing down and so finally alvo said okay you wait here i m gonna keep on thinking he was going to get somewhere and he kept walking but then there wasn t anybody to talk to and you know what that s like he still had his imagination but he didn t have anybody to say it to and remember when they started out they didn t even know where they were going and now look at them two imaginations fighting over the same place and so alvo said it s all lalo s fault and lalo was thinking that fucker alvo leaving me stranded out here kwets barcelona 2012 el chino paused for a moment he looked at me something devious in his eye or maybe just something right you know what people are like out there el chino continued in the desert they talk about everything that s where the best talking happens in the middle of nowhere even when there s nobody to talk to even when it s only you and your gun that s still the best place to talk but who can really tell what direction they were walking in it seemed like alvo was moving fast and lalo was crawling over the cactus but who knows if it wasn t the other way around and then alvo was laid flat lalo running through the catclaws and they were together again on a leash and they were just looking at each other not sure who was saying what and they kept on and when they came to a ravine they walked right through the ravine and when they came to a thicket they walked right through the thicket and they kept walking north siempre north not for any reason like before but because that was the way people walked and that was how they leashed each other not straying just north all the time now and one time they even crossed a snake but it was a dead snake a big one it looked like it had been killed with a shovel but there were no shovels out there there was nothing at all but the snake s back was broken like it had fallen out of the sky and that s what they thought and they looked up but there was nothing up there either and so alvo picked the snake up and said that they should bury it and lalo shrugged and they looked at each other and then lalo said that maybe they could eat it and alvo nodded like a couple vultures he said and then he dropped the snake and it fell stiffly and they kept on walking and then it was day and it was hot it was night it was cold and it was day they talked and they crawled and they stood and they walked that s all they could do and the gun and the leash and the flock and the two of them out there in the middle of nothing talking and walking they had water but they drank it pouring it into their mouths wet and warm and then they sweated and the water went back into the sky high and hot and then even the water was gone and then they were on the ground they were crawling alvo first then lalo lalo first then alvo they were looking for water they were looking for north or looking for south it didn t matter which one and then they had to start to imagine harder than before you know and so they stood and opened the bottles and raised them over their open mouths but nothing came out but they drank or imagined that they did and so they started wondering why they were there and maybe they thought maybe they were there because they were escaping something they were escaping where they had been escaping the steps that they d been taking and they imagined that each step on the ground was escaping the last step they had taken and they felt like they couldn t escape fast enough from where they had been from where they were from where they were going and that s why they didn t turn around and that s why they couldn t stop why they kept imagining the gun the ground the fence trying to get away from their footprints trying to even get away from their own feet and there was nothing for them to do then but talk are we getting close lalo asked and alvo nodded but the answer wasn t an answer it was an echo are we getting close close to where is that the way north are we going north we gonna die out here we re gonna die and so maybe they did die out there el chino said you see what i mean maybe alvo would have lived but he went b...