Congratulations... (English translation after...Close, I'm told...I think.) “Di mana ada kehidupan, di situ pasti ada kematian. Mati itu mudah ; hiduplah yang sulit. Semakin berat kehidupan yang dihadapi, semakin kuat keinginan untuk bertahan. Dan semakin besar ketakutan untuk mati, semakin besar pula perjuangan untuk terus hidup.” ― Mo Yan, Big Breasts and Wide Hips "Where there is… Continue reading (Video) Mo Yan, China, 2012 Winner of The Nobel Prize for Literature,
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Simple Portfolio for West Vine Press, by Andrew H. Kuharevicz
Simple Portfolio for West Vine Press, by Andrew H. Kuharevicz.
Public reading of an old book.
For record: I was asked to give a reading of a book of mine that came out a few years ago; a very youthful and messy novel that I spontaneously drafted on a travel I had down to Saint Petersburg Florida It is riddled with random and hidden mistakes but people have taken a liking to it, and it… Continue reading Public reading of an old book.
(video) The Books: Read, Eat, Sleep
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Writing by dead writers, William Styron and Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert: “Be orderly in your life, and ordinary like a bourgeois, in order to be violent and original in your works." William Styron (pictured above): "In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come-… Continue reading Writing by dead writers, William Styron and Gustave Flaubert
Adventures In American Writing 