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Feb.09.2013
The tawny owl was explaining to me, or attempting to explain, how the size of the mountainous waves at Mavericks that often give surfers the willies and shrink their balls into kernels the size of yellow corn are influenced by cosmic dust storms light years into space that...
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Jan.09.2013
The bunkers, many of them broken and damaged, hunkered like giant multi-colored tortoises along the rocky shore, extending up the rugged hills, partially hidden by overgrowth, boulders, and trees. More than 750,000 of them...
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Jul.10.2011
Photo: Ashkelon, re-found Roman statue, standing along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea
Always wanted to say something like this. On a fellow's blog, about patriotism, July 4th, etc., I finally got my chance:
"Patriotism" is a huge turnoff to me, and in reality--not to mention...
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May.31.2011
I was thinking about vampires, Dracula in particular, and I just thought I'd write up a short piece. I could elaborate so much more, but there's just so much I could say on the tributaries of subjects pertaining to the main, and if I were going to go into that much detail I would have to do a ton...
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May.18.2011
Pleased to announce that Romanian rights to The Lotus Eaters have sold.
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Dec.09.2010
There are many theories as to why Scandinavian crime writers prosper in the bestseller lists. But I know why it is. Ikea.
I just bought a new set of Ikea shelves for my office. I’ll get into exactly how that has altered the configuration of my workspace, but at this point let me just note that it...
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Jan.13.2010
Carmen is convinced that I would look terrific as a blonde. She even suggests a few plum coloured streaks around my fringe to highlight the effect, to break up the overall white head that she promises will be stunning. I have come in for a simple cut, a tidy up really, nothing life changing as I...
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Oct.11.2009
The celebration of one literary laureate kicked off when the Swedish Academy in Stockholm awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature to German-Romanian Herta Mϋller October 8, 2009. The celebration of another literary laureate got underway October 7, when Amiri Baraka, one of African America's...
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Aug.12.2009
This is a first time blog. When I received the invitation from Red Room to write about my hero, I felt compelled to do so. Bear with me. I usually do not write for others. Here goes:
I picture my son, laying in a crib lined in yellow and brown stained sheets, wet with urine and tears. He...
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Aug.04.2009
Issue 6 of the Romanian journal, 'Contemporan Orizont Literar' (and in English, 'C&LH', editor-in-chief, Daniel Dragomirescu) is now available. It features my interview with Swansea poet, Peter Thabit Jones, A Poet is born, not made, on p.3-8. It also features fellow Red Room writer, Peggy...
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