The quote below is an excerpt from A Man Without A Country — a diamond of a book by the inimitable Kurt Vonnegut. To be as wise, incensed and articulate as Vonnegut is here (age 83) is surely one definition of success. If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don’t have the… [Read more…]
December 20, 2011
I’m delighted to have a guest post from award-winning vegan chef Mark Reinfeld, of Vegan Fusion. A culinary wizard, Mark picked up a love of food from his grandfather who was a chef and ice carver. He has co-authored more books than you can shake a carrot at, including the lauded, best-seller Vegan Fusion World… [Read more…]
December 13, 2011
In the spring I won the Higher Education Academy Student Essay Competition, which paid for my Kindle. Hurrah! Anyway, below, my winning essay on “What do English or Creative Writing have to say to an age of austerity?” When the recession first bared its teeth a literary friend of mine was blasé. Writers are used… [Read more…]
December 1, 2011
Not only is Lady Gaga the best pop songsmith on the planet, she has some of the best tattoos. The Rilke quote on her upper arm reads, in part: “In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write.” C’est magnifique.
November 24, 2011
Across the pond its Thanksgiving and various friends and family are getting set to tuck into some serious eating. Luckily, I get to skip the dead poultry element of the day and focus on the best part – things for which I’m thankful. This year has been such an adventure and it’s not over yet.… [Read more…]
November 22, 2011
A huge thanks to La Muse creators Kerry & John and the brilliant creative company: Debbie, Anna, Stephanie, Sherry, Rebecca and Jessie. I’ve had an amazing, illuminating fortnight in the south of France. One short story and one new book title later it’s off to London and the next adventure.
November 4, 2011
One of the things I like best about my Kindle (oh how the snobbish are fallen!) is the wealth of random, out-of-copyright books I can add for free. Being a food geek, I was drawn to Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine by William Curew Hazlitt, a literature review, if you will, of old-school English… [Read more…]
May 14, 2011
No escribo para encontrar respuestas, ni creo en las novelas que lo hacen. Faulkner decia que la literatura logra lo mismo que una pobre cerilla que se enciende en mitad de la noche, en mitad de un campo. No sirve para iluminar nada, solamente para ver cuanta oscuridad hay a nuestro alredador y lo poco… [Read more…]
April 17, 2011
This will be brief, too, as the word-count-ometer is already, I fear, in the red. This post is linked by title and tags to three others — each interviews I conducted with writers who are prolific bloggers and published authors. Two of the three are Canadian-born but based in the USA (make of that what… [Read more…]
April 17, 2011
Caitlin Kelly is a Canadian-born writer who lives and works in Tarrytown, New York. She is the author of two books Blown Away: American Women and Guns (Pocket Books, 2004) and Malled – My Unintentional Career in Retail (Portfolio/Penguin, 2011). Her journalism appears in publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal,… [Read more…]
January 10, 2012
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