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. […]
Walls, the book trailer
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
You’ve seen the movie. Now read the book. Next I need my publisher to make up some bubble gum cards.
September
11
My books are here!
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
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.
Advance Praise for Walls
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
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 […]
September
04
Bringing Walls to the People
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
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 […]
August
28
Launching Walls
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
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 […]
August
13
Swifter. Higher. Stronger. Over.
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
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 […]
July
16
“There is no Jericho moment.”
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
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 […]
