Self-exiled in Spain

Why I Give My Books Away For Free In 2015, after the release of my first book with Burrow Press, a small press based out of Orlando, Florida, I was invited to give a reading at a public library. The book I’d always imagined I could…

Give away your art. This beautiful essay really resonated with me. lithub.com/why-i-give-m...

I’ve Made Two International Moves. My New Countries Took Something Very Simple From Me. I used to have four names. Now, I'm not so sure.

My essay on how I lost half my name when I immigrated is up on @slate.com and Stephen Miller loses another hair every time you click on it. So click on it. slate.com/life/2025/10...

Giovanni García-Fenech: Mexico to Seville, Via NYC's Art World By James Hartley

Oh, and I got interviewed by The Madrid Review themadridreview.com/f/giovanni-g...

Mark my words: If the Nobel Prize committee gives Trump the Peace Prize I'm going to return mine.

This site is much funnier than LinkedIn, but just as depressing.

When the heatwave finally broke it felt like a relief to walk around in 90-degree weather

*yes, like that Bob Dylan song

I moved to New York in 1992 and then the winter of 1993 was the worst in 50 years*. People said if I could make it through I would be a real New Yorker. Now I moved to Sevilla and it’s the worst summer in history. People say if I can make it through I’ll be a real Sevillano. I don’t like this.

Apple Store ad for ChatGPT reading “Sort your life out with ChatGPT”

THIS is their pitch?!

Started reading Don Quixote but got depressed when I found out he was supposed to be 50 years old. Does anyone know how old Moby Dick was supposed to be?

Don’t take this away from us

It's nice once again living in a country in which my last name doesn't mark me as an other. There are streets named Garcia, ice-cream shops named Garcia, bars named Garcia, fashion stores named Garcia, and even a chain of hat stores named Garcia. None are "ethnic," they're just what they are.

Never been more happy to be running away from home

Everyone in Sevilla is coughing. I can’t tell if they’re sick or if it’s just that they all smoke.

I’ve been in Spain for three weeks and i haven’t seen a single Cybertruck

My encounters with the King and other Spaniards My early experiences with Spaniards never made me think I’d one day move here.

Meeting the King of Spain didn't quite prepare me for my move to this country
introvert.nyc/2025/03/11/m...

Goodbye MAGA, hola España! And just like that, our journey away from MAGA USA to Spain had begun.

I self-deported my Mexican ass all the way to Spain. And I brought a German with me for good measure. introvert.nyc/2025/03/03/g...

Hitler comes back to life. He is greeted by a jackbooted mob with some sort of stiff-armed salute, nobody knows what to call it, maybe a Roman salute?

It’s been very easy for me not to buy anything today because I’m in Sevilla and all the stores are closed because it’s a regional holiday. Also, wrong country anyway.

just let gargamel have the smurfs. who cares

5 Books to Read About Artists Under Nazism How do artists function under tyranny?

In 2016 I wrote this short article about how artists dealt with fascism in the '30s (spoiler alert: not always honorably!). I worried then that I might have been a bit histrionic. I don't feel that way today.
hyperallergic.com/344645/5-boo...

I ❤️ Idi Amin!

The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.

Something nice to read before bedtime
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If nobody wants it I’ll take the brine, thanks

I don’t know what the hell is going on, but there’s workers operating a pile driver at 1 AM outside my window and it’s the most New York thing ever

The last thing you see before your empire collapses

These chips are going to get more expensive with the tariffs *munch munch* people are getting aroused

Brittle ones

Same, but Kool-Aid