I am excited to announce that Walls: Travels Along the Barricades now has publishers in the U.S. and the U.K. (I’ve been having a great October.) Union Books will publish Walls this June in the United Kingdom. Union is run by Alex Clark and Rosalind Porter, both formerly of Granta, a literary journal I’ve long admired […]
October
22
Walls at Edmonton’s LitFest
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
I am very excited to be bringing Walls: Travels Along the Barricades to Edmonton’s LitFest this week. I’ve been wanting to be part of the festival since its inception, and thrilled to be attending with some fine fellow writers. (I’m a little saddened, though, that I didn’t get to be part of the whiskey and […]
October
22
First (rejected) Cover
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
Hello all. I have some exciting Walls-related news coming up in the next couple of weeks. Until then, I thought I’d share this image. This was the first cover design the good people at Goose Lane came up with for Walls. I think it looks great. I especially like the gentle curve of the structure […]
My week at Wordfest…
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
I will be involved in three Wordfest events this week. First tonight: … then tomorrow: … and, finally, the next day:
Walls Excerpt in The Calgary Herald
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
As part of their coverage of next week’s Wordfest, The Calgary Herald included an excerpt from Walls: Travels Along the Barricades in today’s paper. The section comes from the beginning of my chapter about the fences around Ceuta and Melilla called “The Bogeyman is Coming.”
Walls reviewed in The Globe and Mail
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
Thanks to Will Ferguson for his review of Walls in yesterday’s Globe. I’ve admired Will’s writing for years, and am honoured that he enjoyed the book. You can find the review here. I’ve also included it below. Marcello Di Cintio’s fascinating travels in a walled world Years ago, while visiting the Great Wall of China, […]
The Walls, en français
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
Today, UQAM professor Elisabeth Vallet spoke about Walls: Travels Along the Barricades on the French-language Radio-Canada program “Plus on est de fous, plus on lit!” She also talks about Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel, a book by Reece Jones. You can hear the discussion here. Vallet […]
September
24
First review of Walls
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
The first review of Walls: Travels Along the Barricades appears in the current issue of Canadian Geographic. In it, reviewer Dan Rubinstein, who is also the magazine’s Managing Editor – says some nice things about the book including: [Di Cintio] observes and reports tirelessly, then makes powerful and poetic connections between all that he has […]
September
21
Launching Walls at home
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
After spending a few days promoting the new book in Toronto and Montreal, I finally got to launch Walls: Travels Along the Barricades in my hometown in front of friends and family. We held the launch in the back lot of Calgary’s army surplus store, Crown Surplus, surrounded by barbed wire fencing, rusted artillery and […]
On Writing Walls
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
My essay on the writing of my new book appears here at The Montreal Review. I’ve also reprinted it below. In December 1999, hot with millennial fever and desperate to be somewhere ‘important’ when the clock turned on 2000, I traveled to Jerusalem. On Christmas Eve during that trip, I walked from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. […]
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