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Dec.05.2012 - 9:11 am
A day late and a dollar short. I was supposed to do my "Blog Hop" entry yesterday, but things happened — including, believe it or not, a visit by Omar Sharif to our little...
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Oct.31.2012 - 2:36 pm
We love Paris, ma copine and I, for all the usual reasons. The great monuments, the museums including the famous and the smaller specialized ones, the good tastes in even modest...
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Oct.20.2012 - 3:08 pm
When I first stepped onto the tarmac of Caracas' Maiquetía airport in July, 1963, shortly after my 22d birthday, I knew just four words of Spanish: caballo, pistola, sombrero and...
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Oct.11.2012 - 4:37 am
This Book Baby post (Finding a Literary Agent) inspired these reflections.
Your situation may be different, but for me, this is an argument for skipping the whole process,...
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Writing
Short Story:
From a Trolley Stop in Amsterdam
Short Story:
A lua no céu da baía
Short Story:
Stairways
He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for a long time with foreigners in South America.”
—Carson McCullers on Jake Blount, in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
About Geoffrey
After graduating from Harvard, I worked in Venezuela and other Latin American countries, finally getting a Ph.D. in sociology (Northwestern U.) and teaching and writing on Latin American themes. I began writing fiction later, including a book of short stories...
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Amnesty International, Médecins Sans Frontières
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