Javier Rodríguez, Chilean Writer: “Everyone, at some Point, Is or Will Be Decadent. It’s inevitable.”

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Journalist, writer, and editor Javier Rodríguez Álvarez (36) shares his home in Providencia with his wife and two dogs; and for his second novel, Huracán (Hurricane), he found an idea precisely in his daily life with his canine companions. “I live with two dogs: Pina, a fourteen-year-old dachshund, and Oli, a rescued greyhound mix. I spend a lot of time with them, probably more than with most humans. Little by little, I began to wonder what it m…