WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — The book is officially fiction: the story of a president who disappears as he tries to prevent an apocalyptic cyberattack. The authors, Bill Clinton and
Art is everywhere. You can see it, you can hear it, and you can feel it. It is in the words that you utter, in what you read or write,
Saying that Clinton Palanca writes about food is kind of like saying Marcel Proust wrote about remembering stuff.
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Time zones are getting blurred. Naps are no longer only during siesta time. I have just wakened up from one that lasted from 6 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. It was a misplaced nap and a slow wake for me, fin, by fin, by fin, until I am swimming on my bedspread. I plan to get up soon and write. It is a good intention. But it could begin way past midnight.
The question seems to me to imply that one is either missed or suspected of indolence or, worse, of mischief. In any case, only Margaret Mitchell, by the sheer force of her personality and literary stature, could get away, so majestically, with her reply: “Doing? It’s a full-time job to be the author of ‘Gone With the Wind.’”
Do you remember me calling you late one night in 2001, blurting on the phone before you could even say hello—“Letty, you’re not popular pala!”
All my life I did my work in bed. Since I have ever and always handwritten my manuscripts (that’s why they’re called manuscripts) I used to do them prone in
“The Children’s Crusade” (Scribner), by Ann Packer Ann Packer’s new novel tells the story of a family set against the stunning landscape of pre-Silicon Valley Northern California. Pediatrician
THERE are probably no two avocations more prone to clutter than writing and painting (if you’re by nature a disorderly person, which I am). I handwrite my drafts because my
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