Category: Andes

  • Recording of “Misdirection” from The Common

    The cover’s scrambled cassette tape is the perfect lead in, as I remember so many bus rides listening to so many tapes mixed by other passengers, bus drivers, hangers on. Come along on a family hiking trip in the páramo, the upland spanning the Colombian border, in my Issue 21 story “Misdirection.” Click to hear a new…

  • The Common #21

    The Common #21

    I’m so pleased to have a story, “Misdirection,” in this issue of The Common. Now available for pre-order, digital editions available from April 26.

  • Bridges real, imagined, or ruined.

    Parque Provincial Aconcagua Plaza España, Mendoza We rode the overnight bus back to Rosario from Mendoza last night, luxuriating in coche came comfort–except that my legs are a little short to take full advantage of the footrest. Dozing off, I composed a brilliant blog post in my head. What follows may or may not resemble…

  • Borders, Boundaries, Aerial Photographs

    Not having taken any such, I wrote a poem once called “Aerial Photograph.” Years ago, but I still like the poem. Here it is, with several aerial photographs of a quite different landscape: the Andes at the border between Argentina and Chile, taken on a flight from Buenos Aires to Guayaquil. I was irritated when…