…Ali has taken the action out of the home and into the high-octane kitchen of the executive chef Gabriel Lightfoot, whose restaurant at the Imperial Hotel gives her a wider, more public space in which to continue her exploration of the modern immigrant experience. In changing her setting, she almost manages to change her tone, […]
The Need to Keep Things the Same: Monica Ali and “In The Kitchen” Read More »
The hardest thing about being a writer is making good use of your time.Time is a writer’s most precious commodity, after imagination—and maybe even before.For it is in the conservation and consolidation creating an abundance of time, that our imaginations percolate. I would imagine this is the way it is for all artists. Yet for
Three nights ago I did a reading at a local bookstore. There were four other authors with me. We all read from our books and then, after answering a few questions, signed copies of our books for both the store and those who came to hear us read and had or did purchase copies of
Yesterday, at the suggestion of my internet publicist, I released a book into the wild. I did it through using the website, bookcrossings.com. Basically you register with bookcrossings.com as you would with facebook.com or myspace.com. Once a member you give the title of the book you are going to release, and the name of where
Against the Grain and Into the Wild Read More »