A novel can contain a powerful story and still need its execution to mature. A reflection on early readers, the craft of revision, and that moment when a writer learns to step back and allow the work to find its own way to the reader. Continue reading →
A reading that approaches We’ll Meet in Stockholm as a novel about the writer’s craft, where vocation, failure, and persistence shape a shared existential experience. José Díaz Díaz explores the tension between creation, industry, and destiny in the work of William Castaño-Bedoya. Continue reading →
At Grámmata, Medellín, María Sucel Flores traveled from Hermosillo just to meet me. Dressed in red, with a quiet radiance, she asked me to sign Flowers for María Sucel. Sometimes, a single reader is enough: her presence crossed borders and silences. That moment—more than a signature—became an act of faith between literature and the human soul.
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From the Crónicas de tres millas series, William Castaño-Bedoya pays tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa and reflects on his dissident role within the Latin American Boom. A call to write without flags in an age of algorithms and technological governments. → Continue reading
A critical reflection on modern U.S. protectionism, written mid-walk, where the author unmasks the economic and symbolic consequences of a policy that punishes consumers and isolates the country from the future. → Continue reading
A walk shaped by irony leads to Florida’s HB 3, a law that claims to protect minors while shifting responsibility elsewhere. Between contradiction and illusion, it reveals a deeper failure: neither legislation nor platforms can replace moral accountability. In the end, we blame God or the Devil—never ourselves.
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“Man is the measure of all things.” — Protagoras. Yet, in today’s healthcare system, it seems this measure has been replaced by figures, statistics, and profit margins. → Continue reading
When fiction meets testimony, reality becomes undeniable. Through Annette Taddeo’s account of Florida’s unemployment system, the novel’s moral core finds its real-world mirror: a structure designed to fail those it should protect. Between narrative and truth, one question remains—who is held accountable when systems abandon the vulnerable?
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Christine joined the Coral Gables Library presentation as a key panelist, offering a reader’s testimony that brought the novel’s manifestos into focus. She emphasized their role as the epilogue’s core, highlighting The Life Amendment: the right to live without fear as the work’s most urgent and defining proposition.
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Through an academic lens, Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel reads The Beggars of the Mercury Lights as a space where fiction becomes testimony. Between memory, history, and narrative form, the novel challenges how we understand the pandemic, identity, and power—raising a central question: can imagination reshape the reality we inhabit?
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Eighteen years after its first flight, a novel finds its way back through an unexpected reader. Between memory, distance, and chance, this chronicle reflects on the invisible bond between writer and reader—and on the quiet miracle that allows a story to endure.
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In a world where diagnoses are abundant but solutions are scarce, Latin America confronts political, economic, and social challenges that have perpetuated a cycle of polarization and stagnation. In this discourse, I delve into the issue of “overdiagnosis” within our nations and advocate for genuine praxis to drive significant change in the region… →Continue reading
Over four decades, The Galpón follows two men navigating a corporate world shaped by distrust, ambition, and ideological extremes. As business evolves with the rise of technology, their inner conflicts reveal a deeper truth: success and failure are ultimately driven by the human condition, where ethics, desire, and contradiction quietly determine every outcome.
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Cryptocurrencies have inspired a new kind of devotion in the modern world. What appears to be a technological revolution may also reveal something deeper: a faith built on speculation, promise, and the dream of wealth. Through a conversation with a younger generation captivated by crypto, this chronicle reflects on how material ambition can transform markets into temples and investment into belief.
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Patrick Süskind’s Perfume reveals the astonishing semiotic power of scent. Through the unsettling genius of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, the novel transforms smell into an invisible language capable of shaping desire, perception, and human behavior.
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With the understanding that this is not intended as a literary critique, I refer to William Castaño-Bedoya’s book from the impression it left on me as a reader. What matters is what the work conveys — the singularity of its characters and the connection it establishes with our own existence, always unfolding within a story of love… or the absence of it… —Continue reading this essay →
Originally published in “La Crónica del Quindío” and written by journalist Héctor Javier Barrera Palacio, this interview explores the literary path of William Castaño-Bedoya and the human roots of his work. Speaking from Coral Gables, the author reflects on the inner exiles that shape his characters, the origins of novels such as “Flowers for María Sucel” and “Ludovico,” and the relationship between memory, identity, and literary creation…
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