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- 30.09.24The gilded chapel of La Conchita en Coyoac...
- 29.09.24You are prohibited from entering the park ...
- 28.09.24The alleged site of Cortez's villa in Coyo...
- 27.09.24Comí churros todos las dias.
- 26.09.24The librerio off the Alameda, perhaps the ...
- 25.09.24Café La Habana, est. 1952. A crossroads wh...
- 24.09.24An evening when chaos and kairos fused in...
- 23.09.24Representations of an Aztec zocalo in mini...
- 22.09.24On occasion we bear witness to heroic arch...
- 21.09.24Art deco - el mercado michoacan en la cond...
- 20.09.24Ruins in contrast. The former city of Teno...
- 19.09.24It is difficult to register. Gravity persi...
- 18.09.24The centre of the Aztec Empire, in the cen...
- 17.09.24An impossible contortion in full anguish. ...
- 16.09.24Roberto Bolaño: "Reading is always more im...
- 15.09.24To continue reading, Lispector's cronicas ...
- 14.09.24Roberto Bolaño, has been read and recommen...
- 13.09.24Pedro Páramo, to be read repeatedly.
- 12.09.24Fernanda Melchor, to be read again.
- 11.09.24Tilt-up walls resting on concrete footings...
- 10.09.24This bougainvillea, a favourite among psyc...
- 09.09.24Our aerial tour continued onwards and over...
- 08.09.24Each rooftop punctuates the journey, fully...
- 07.09.23An urban alternative to the snow packed ae...
- 06.09.24Kerouac rented a rooftop hovel at 212 Oriz...
- 05.09.24Tracking the Beats in Ciudad de México at ...
- 04.09.24The day exhausts as we approach the invert...
- 03.09.24A shelf dedicated to Roberto Bolaño's fic...
- 02.09.24The UNAM chemistry building displaying per...
- 01.09.24Around the corner stands the majestic cent...
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reading
- a place in the country: w.g. sebald
- against nature: joris-karl huysmans
- between parentheses: essays, articles and speeches: roberto bolaño
- beyond remembering: the collected poems of al purdy
- de certeau: the practice of everyday life
- deeds, abstracts: greg curnoe
- early vancouver: major j.s. matthews
- eraser street: henri robideau
- finnegan's wake: james joyce
- hackney, that rose-red empire: iain sinclair
- islands of abandonment: cal flyn
- kingsway: michael turner
- landmarks: robert macfarlane
- liquidities: vancouver poems, then and now: daphne marlatt
- make it true: poetry from cascadia
- malcolm lowry/ vancouver days: sheryl salloum
- occasional works and seven walks from the office for soft architecture: lisa robertson
- on the number 20 line: rolf knight
- psychogeography: merlin coverley
- reveries of a solitary walker: j.j. rousseau
- slammer: al neil
- slouching towards bethlehem: joan didion
- tender buttons: gertrude stein
- the art of wandering: merlin coverley
- the cariboo horses: al purdy
- the mcCleery diary 1862-66 earliest settlers of vancouver, city archives vancouver 1964
- the other paris: luc sante
- the situationist city: simon sadler
- the walk: robert walser
- todas las crónicas: clarice lispector
- uncreative writing: kenneth goldsmith
- vancouver walking: meredith quartermain
- vancouver was awesome: lani russwurm
- vancouver: a poem: george stanley
- walter benjamin's grave: michael taussig
- wanderlust: rebecca solnit
They Write to Us of Vancouver
We still haven't been to Canada! ...Perhaps in the not too distant future? My behaviour is no longer just enigmatic, it terrorizes, and I cannot be reproached a single gesture, an illicit word. On the contrary, my conduct is exemplary, completely disorienting...
Patrick Straram from Potlatch #2 June 1954
Patrick Straram from Potlatch #2 June 1954
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