I’ve been reading Gabriel García Márquez’s memoir Living to Tell the Tale for months now, and I’m enjoying the feeling of being leisurely. Some books you tear through because you become so engrossed in the action and the characters; others you savor. García Márquez’s books have always fallen in the latter category for me. They’re [...]
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Perhaps one of the luckiest things to occur in literature happened when Gabriel García Márquez was attending law school and working as an apprentice journalist in Cartagena. Colombia was in the midst of violent political upheaval, which García Márquez had escaped from when he fled Quito. Bragging one night at a restaurant about his happy-go-lucky [...] On the advice of an editor, I am revising Sliver of Light to be a young adult novel. From the beginning, people have commented it might be better situated in YA because of its protagonist and relatively short length (it’s about 80,000 words), but I was unsure how to tailor it for that audience. Fortunately, [...] OK. so if you’re depressed about crime and the decay of society and interpersonal disconnection, Jean-Luc Godard is not the person whose work you should turn to. I feel like I should put on some liquid eyeliner and look into the camera while saying, “Je ne sais pas…” But that’s just my typical way of dealing [...] |
My Opium Den
After some thinking, I realized why I didn't finish this book (even as I racked up late fees from the library): I found the subject matter, the history of the region of England called Sunderland, interesting, but there was nothing about the...
Lovely art by Camilla D'Errico (who should be listed as a co-author) provide mood and texture for this story of a troubled young girl whose fantasy life becomes a bit too real when she visits a website called Make5wishes.com. The authors ar...
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