DATA OF INTEREST
GUEST:
ORLANDO LUIS PARDO LAZO
HOST:
JULIANA RAVELO
Synopsis:
Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo tells us about his work at digital magazines such as TREP (The Revolution Evening Post, 2007-2008) and 33 1/tercio (2005-2010). He considers disobedience to be liberating, not a threat, and welcomes commitment, collaboration and affiliation that stems from authenticity. What is the importance of irreverence in literature? What conditions and possibilities does digital publishing offer? How do media and modes of expression influence affective networks?
Bio:
Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo is a writer and photographer from Havana. He has been a doctoral student in Comparative Literature at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. since 2016. From exile, the publisher Hypermedia has published his books of counterculture Cuban chronicles Del clarín escuchad el silencio (2016) and Espantado de todo me refugio en Trump (2018). He is the author of the book of short stories Boring Home, of the narrative anthology Cuba in Splinters (O/R Books) and the photography book La Habana abandonada (Restless Books). He has collaborated with Smithsonian Magazine, In These Times, Sampsonia Way, Human Geography, The Mantle, Words Without Borders, Chess Life, El Nacional, Qué Pasa, Diario de Cuba, CiberCuba, CubaNet, CubaEncuentro, Cuban Counterpoints, and Linden Lane Magazine, among others.
