Álvarez has also contributed to two Colombian short story anthologies: Señales de Ruta[3] and El Corazón Habitado.
In 2011, Álvarez published his first novel, C. M. no record, based on the underground musical life of the Bogotá and Medellín rock and roll scene.
[4][5] He has published short-stories, interviews, and essays in literary journals and magazines such as: El Malpensante, Número, Etiqueta Negra, Donjuan, Letralia, and the Rio Grande Review.
Several Colombian critics have remarked Álvarez’s use of language in Falsas alarmas as an evidence of a “young writer who knows his craft, and has talent and appreciation for the written word”[6] (Guido Tamayo) and of a style “without pretensions” (Francisco Barrios).
[7] Others have insisted in the desolated universe of these short stories, populated mainly by young people “not marked by exotic adventures (...) but by the daily discovery of their absolute solitude” (Diana Ospina).