LOCAL EXPERIENCE
LIVE CARIOCA
Rio isn't just somewhere you visit—it gets under your skin. From hidden beaches and football culture to nightlife, hiking, boat days and neighborhoods most visitors never experience, this is the Rio that inspired the Carioca Collection. Experience the city with someone who actually calls it home.
MEET CARLOS
Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Carlos specializes in authentic local experiences far beyond traditional tourism. From football and beaches to hiking, nightlife, boat trips and neighborhood culture, he has spent years introducing travelers to the Rio that inspired the Carioca Collection.
THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL
“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear, or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — one is as good as the other.”
— Ernest Hemingway
This is not my story. Although after some deliberation there is no alternative other thanto write it just as was told to me. The main character and I were in extremelyproximity (also known as cellmates) in (facility omitted) during the time period of (dates omitted).
During this time of my life I read more books than my entire lifetime prior. This being a testament to what great bastains of literature that jails and prisons are. A good book is a temporary key to the gate that is passed from tier to tier and block to block, faster than an exceptional fifi (if you don’t know what that is consider yourself lucky!)
My chance encounter with the main character combined with my new, found love of novels, led me to believe I could write a captivating and truly unique novel of my own. I wrote the entire first draft while incarcerated, the majority of which was done with tiny golf pencils, (due to the fear that full-size pencils would be used as weapons) on scraps of paper, and the backs of legal forms. Upon my eventual release, the writing and rewriting was a far greater endeavor than I ever could have anticipated. Additionally, the final product is a lot less polished than I envisioned it to be. I wish I had studied the craft in a classroom. I wish I had read more Vonnegut and Faulkner, while in really I read mostly Rowling and King inside a six by eight cage.
With all that said, I vowed to, write this thing and I did just fucking that. I ain’t Twain or even a damn Clemens but I gave it my all and hope I did the story adequate justice. All I can truly attest to is that is is a true “Jailhouse Tale” but enough about me, let's get to Benjamin “Buc” Flynn.
-The Author
