Cuba | Cuba
Apr.26.2013
Why, people ask, do I wander the world? Why do my wife and I spend time in other countries, seeking out places that are different from those we’re used to and are comfortable in?
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Feb.05.2013
Writer Thaisa Frank invited me to participate in a series, The Next Big Thing, regarding what work one is doing. Here, posted, are my answers to the questions sent my way.
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Nabokov says that writers who share unfinished work are like dogs begging for scraps at the table. That said, to...
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Aug.13.2012
The acrylic Coke bottles brazenly alternating with inverted Havana Club bottles couldn’t help but snag the attention of passersby. It was just one of the paintings, drawings, handicrafts, and other works of art being hawked by their creators at the weekly...
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Jul.07.2012
Noah just popped into my head as I looked out the window.
He's a slender young white man with a trimmed black beard and matching hair. Probably has about five percent body fat. I met him the other night. He's from Canada, one of the drivers delivering goods to Cuba via nine buses. They're...
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Apr.23.2012
Finally, I’m able to concentrate on other things.
As you know, I went to Cuba in February. My next book is set there, and I wanted to fact check some settings as well as Cuban positions on the issues. So I hooked up with a travel agency I highly recommend, btw, and signed up for a...
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Mar.10.2012
Watergate, by Thomas Mallon
image via miamiherald.com
If you were alive and reading the daily paper in 1972, you already know the gist of this story. If not, here it is, in brief:
President Richard Nixon was running for his second term, and a group of cronies, aides,...
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Mar.08.2012
As many of you already know from the photos I posted, I visited Cuba February 11-18, but it’s taken me a while to write about it. I think I needed to process exactly how I felt. I knew it was an important trip, and not just because I’m setting a novel there (which I am). It turned out to be one...
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Feb.11.2012
Hemingway’s Boat, by Paul Hendrickson
image via csmonitor.com
“You know you love the sea and would not be anywhere else…She is just there and the wind moves her and the current moves her and they fight on her surface but down below none of it matters.”
That’s a segment from...
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Jan.26.2012
Newt Gingrich, pandering to aerospace workers in the Florida primary, promises to colonize the moon and run regular flights to Mars. And he’s got something in his gift bag for Cuban-Americans too -- military action against the commie regime down there.
You might wonder how...
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Jan.14.2012
A friend of mine just returned from Cuba. It's on the list of places where I want to go. That's a long list and I don't work on it much. Travel is another dream.
I worry that I put off too much of my dreams, that they get lost in the day's bowel movements and sloth. Finishing my novel is the...
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