On the Road: Cartagena

Art for sale in Cartagena

“It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there’s not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.”
–Gabriel García Márquez

Read more thoughts on writing from the Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author and journalist in this Paris Review interview.

The flower market in Cartagena

The narrow streets of Cartagena

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