Presidential barber -- Topic for a topical piece -- An understandable mistake -- Lonely hearts killer -- Death is an unpunctual lady -- Strange idolatry of la Sierpe -- A man arrives in the rain -- House of the Buendias -- Literaturism -- Precursors -- Postman rings a thousand times -- Aracataca tiger -- H.H. goes on vacation (fragment) -- Scandal of the century -- Disappearing women of Paris: are they in Caracas? -- "I visited hungary" (fragment) -- World's most famous year -- Only twelve hours to save him -- June 6, 1958: Caracas with no water -- Misadventures of a writer of books -- I can't think of any title -- Sandinista heist : chronical of the assault on "the hog house" -- Cubans face the blockade -- Specter of the Nobel Prize -- Telepathy without strings -- New oldest profession -- Yes, nostalgia is the same as it ever was -- Horror story for new year's eve -- Magic Caribbean -- Poetry, in children's reach -- River of life -- Maria of my heart -- Like souls in purgatory -- Something else on literature and reality -- My personal Hemingway -- Ghosts of the road -- Bogota 1947 -- Tales of the road -- My other me -- Poor good translators -- Sleeping beauty on the airplane -- Writer wanted -- Obregon or the boundless vocation -- Literature without pain -- From Paris, with love -- Return to Mexico -- Okay, we'll talk about literature -- That news board -- Return to the seed -- How do you write a novel?