Zanón frequently explores his obsessions with music (from The Beatles to Serrat), cinema, and literature, treating these as "escape plans" from a mundane reality.

The book compiles years of Zanón’s journalistic collaborations, offering a "real-world counterpart" to the gritty fictional landscapes found in his novels like Taxi or Yo fui Johnny Thunders .

(2023) is a collection of 100 chronicles by the Barcelona-born author Carlos Zanón , published by Editorial Salamandra . Moving away from his well-known noir fiction, this work serves as a personal and literary map of his "real-world" universe through a blend of caustic observation and lyricism. Core Themes and Content