The Bar of the Post

The Bar of the Post

Alejandro Latinez: Do not pursue dreams that are not your own

Alberto Valle
When he was nine years old, rummaging for sweets at his grandparents' house, he opened a cupboard and there was that guitar that seemed to be calling him. "I remember spending hours caressing its strings, tracing its contours, hypnotized." The rhythm of Wes Montgomery's In'n'out accompanies the sunset at the...
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Eduardo Ruiz Sosa: To write is, above all, to listen

Alberto Valle
"Writing is not as solitary and individual an activity as people usually believe. Writing is above all listening, invoking, having an awareness of what one is doing. A writer has to have that clear, much more than the petulance of finding one's own voice. Knowing how to listen." Leaning against...
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Brugués Mitjans: Beyond Evasion

Alberto Valle
"There are two Brugués Mitjans. On one hand, the lawyer, extremely serious, disciplined, almost an auditor who faces immense amounts of work. On the other, the Brugués who writes, who tries to escape the rigidity of legal language and give free rein to the stories she imagines." It gives the...
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