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“Agent”
“Agent” I may have a literary agent. At least, it’s suddenly a possibility. What happened was this. Every Friday I repair to a genuinely French café in a nearby town where I review the last six days and pull it … Continue reading
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Tagged "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", allusiveness, artists and writers, author, blurbs, book, coincidence, confession, contacts, control, editors, elevator pitch, endorsements, French cafe, God's world, Hank Williams, inspiration, larger reality, life review, literary agent, Literature, manuscript, memoir, networking, New Yorkers, non-fiction, non-fiction novel, Pan American, personal narrative, plain style, plotline, private and public, public realm, publishers, publishing, readership, serendipity, Success, woodshedding, writer's garret, writers
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“Places”
“Places” “There are no places anymore.” This was the complaint we two hitchhikers, Anna and me, heard from an American traveler at a roadside stop. Our informant — who was saying this to his two compatriots many decades back — … Continue reading
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Tagged "Portrait of Jenny", "The World of Yesterday", 9/11, artists and writers, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bateau Mouche, beats, Big Apple, bohemians, book burning, cafes, Cool, cosmopolitan, country music, earth, Europe, European cities, German Occupation, Hemingway, hitchhiking, nazis, New York, New York in the nineteen forties, Notre Dame, Paris, Robert Frost, Stefan Zweig, Stephen Vincent Benét, The Great War, the Seine, tourists/tourism, travel, World War I, World War II
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