Julio the Porteño and Jimmy the New Yorker take their time with the angelic. Julio is the King of the Cronopios, James the Patron Saint of Harlem; Cortázar is the aesthete of meta-games and Baldwin the author of emotive, sociopolitical autobiographies. One white and Latinoamericano, the other a black norteño. Both writing about a black bird.

Rolando André López Torres reflects on the sublime and despair in stories by James Baldwin and Julio Cortázar.