Alberto García del Castillo's first novel,
Retrospective, is a comedy-
science-fiction novelette about “faggotry” and the art world; depicting a
retour-au-passé in contemporary painting and waving to some of the most beautiful homosexuals on Earth.
Flaunting otherness, the alert reader can follow a clerk of The Land of Sculptures whilst he encounters the pretty faces of The Painter, The Foreign Painter, The Tyrolese Painter and other people doing art and drugs. Retrospective includes “Thumbs-Up”, a superficial analysis of the normalisation of gayness; “Why Homos Are Better”, a masterpiece of investigative journalism in two parts, that originally appeared in Agony 2 (circa 1988–93), a zine edited by B. Boofy and William Bonifay; a drawing by Jurgen Ots; a photograph by César Segarra; and a poem by Lars Laumann.
Alberto García del Castillo writes genre fiction and nonfiction about communities and
queer, performs his own and other people's writings, and collaborates in multiple configurations. He has published his writing in
Girls Like Us, co-edited
Midpoint (Théophile's Papers, 2016) and his two novels
Merman (2017) and
Retrospective (2014) were published by
Shelter Press. Alongside Marnie Slater, is co-curator of Buenos Tiempos, Int.