FICTION vs. NON-FICTION August 17, 2011
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Vidia Naipaul uses a typewriter to write fiction and hand-writing to write non-fiction. (“Along Publisher’s Row,” Authors Guild Bulletin, Spring 2011)
TIME (IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH) August 17, 2011
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Elisabeth Tova Bailey, who began working on a book entitled The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating during a year she spent confined to her bed by a severe chronic illness, says: “Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties. It was all I could do to get through each moment, and each moment felt like an endless hour, yet days slipped silently past. Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.”
JHUMPA LAHIRI ON HOME August 10, 2011
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Pulitzer Prize winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri, felt somewhat displaced growing up in America the child of immigrant parents. Did she belong to India or America? Where was her home? She says, “When I became a writer my desk became home; there was no need for another.”
