Tag: art

  • The Need to Keep Things the Same: Monica Ali and “In The Kitchen”

    The Need to Keep Things the Same: Monica Ali and “In The Kitchen”

    …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,…

  • This Day

    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…

  • Art and Money

    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…

  • Against the Grain and Into the Wild

    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…