Walls, the book trailer

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You’ve seen the movie. Now read the book. Next I need my publisher to make up some bubble gum cards.

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September 11

My books are here!

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I haven’t been this excited for a delivery since my son was born. Thank you to everyone at Goose Lane,  my editor John Vigna, and my agent Jackie Kaiser making this happen.

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Advance Praise for Walls

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Thanks to Margaret MacMillan, Taras Grescoe, and Moez Surani for saying these nice things about Walls: Yet another wonderful read from one of the best travel writers of his generation. In Walls, Marcello Di Cintio tells compelling and engrossing stories with his customary mix of vivid detail, a strong sense of history, a lovely sense […]

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September 04

Bringing Walls to the People

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My new book, Walls: Travels Along the Barricades will be released this month and I will be touring the book through Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Edmonton this Fall. If you are anywhere near any of these cities in the next little while, please drop by. My tour schedule is as follows: On September 16th, in […]

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August 28

Launching Walls

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Here it is, the official book launch poster for Walls: Travels Along the Barricades. I decided to hold the event in the back lot of Calgary’s Crown Surplus. Considering the topic of the book, I figured I’d surround my audience with fences, barbed wire, army tents and other shards of military urbanism. I will also […]

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August 13

Swifter. Higher. Stronger. Over.

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A photo, by artist Filiz Ero, that combines my two most recent obsessions: walls and the Summer Olympics. In my new book, I write about people who’ve climbed over or tunneled under their walls. One man crossed a minefield before jumping over his wall. Another put on every shirt he could find so he could […]

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July 16

“There is no Jericho moment.”

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The release date for Walls: Travels Along the Barricades fast approaches. My book launch is now scheduled for September 20th. In the months before the release, I wanted to invite some of the ‘wall dwellers’ I met during my travels to post on this blog. First up is Glenn Weyant. I met Glenn in Arizona […]

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June 28

Leaving Palestine

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I will miss the evening jasmine. I will miss the blood-red sunsets. I will miss the green neon on the minarets and the calls to prayer they broadcast over the hills. I will miss the way the olive leaves change colour during the day – from green, to silver, to grey. I will miss the […]

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June 28

The Prisoners’ Library

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As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve become interested in the role of writing and reading to contemporary Palestinian identity. I’ve been seeking out book-related stories to write, and was excited with someone told me about the Prisoner’s Library in Nablus. In 1996, the Israelis closed down two prisons they had maintained in the […]

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June 21

Walls: The Cover

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Hello all. The Walls book inches closer and closer to publication. Just yesterday I received the final proofed manuscript to sign off on. Once this is done, there is little left to do but wait for the box of writer’s copies to arrive in the mail. There are few greater thrills than tearing open that […]

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