I had the opportunity to interview Lili Wright, the author of the popular novel Dancing with the Tiger. Here are some highlights. Do you write for others because you have to write or for yourself only? I write for myself and others. Writing makes me happy. It helps me use the things I see and experience, […]
I had the opportunity to interview Marcy Dermansky, author of newly released novel The Red Car. Here are some highlights. Do you write for others because you have to write or for yourself only? I write to get published. But when I am actually writing, the words coming from my fingers onto the keyboard, it is all […]
When Breath Becomes Air is the deeply moving story of Dr. Paul Kalanithi, neuroscientist/neurosurgeon, patient, husband, father, son, brother, lover of literature, and, most of all, lover of life itself. He started writing his memoir once he was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer in 2013. He was only 36-years-old then, and he continued with his writing […]
A miracle happened. One morning, I woke up, and I realized that I am a woman in need of a beautiful garden. It seemed like it was the very first time that I could see the flowers, the leaves, the trees, and the garden in a way that I had never seen them before. And […]
On view March 12 – July 3, 2017 | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (http://www.moca.org) In his total of 80 paintings on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Kerry James Marshall documents the history of black life in America and brings to our attention the very known fact that black […]
