For the last forty years, Marcelo Cohen has been developing and recording his passion for Barcelona and Buenos Aires, as well as literature, music, translation, and Maradona, reflected in the stories collected in this volume. Cohen offers insightful analyses about contemporary Argentinian literature and the country's turbulent political context, as well as portraits of Barcelona's Plaça Reial and Madrid's Retiro Park, a theory of reading on public transportation, reflections on the art of translation, and more.