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August 08, 2007 12:14 PM EDT -- The Portuguese bought Patient Anthony for three hundred milreis, the equivalent at the time of one hundred and fifty dollars, a good price for a slave boy in the backlands. The slaver was Saturnino Rabelo, . . . more
June 13, 2007 02:06 PM EDT -- Every writer has a favorite review of his or her book, not filled with words of vacuous hype or empty praises but a critical appreciation of the contents that got it right. Plus the fact . . . more
August 08, 2007 01:22 PM EDT -- The sale of the slaves driven from the north of Brazil was concluded and the overseers stepped up to claim their new charges. Suddenly there was a shout and a boy next to Patient Anthony scrambled to . . . more
December 06, 2007 05:08 PM EST -- I worked with James Michener on his South African novel, The Covenant, involved in every stage of the book from its conception and plotting to final manuscript.   . . . more
March 08, 2007 04:16 PM EST -- I was given vision after I finished this one. Having loss using this piece in poetry competitions to Feili Filiochta Poetry Competitions in Europe and Whisper from the Heart Poetry Competitions . . . more
July 03, 2007 07:27 PM EDT -- The spike sits on a shelf opposite my desk, four inches of mottled iron with a square shank and L-shaped head tapering to a wedge. I picked it up on the Devil's Railroad in the heart of the Amazon . . . more
August 08, 2007 11:43 AM EDT -- Patient Anthony was eight years old on a day in August 1855 when he learned a terrible lesson. Until then, the dark-skinned mulatto boy had known no shame at being naked and often raced bare-bottomed . . . more
June 11, 2007 02:14 PM EDT --                                   On my website  . . . more
February 13, 2008 01:06 AM EST -- By James K. Bashkin, Copyright 2008 (abstracted and adapted from my fiction blog ) The Amateur by Robert Littell: Thriller about the CIA being blackmailed by one of its own! I must say that I . . . more
August 22, 2008 12:37 PM EDT --   As an editor and writer who saw his first published story set in hot metal, I marvel at Amazon's new Kindle reader and its role in the future of the "printed" word. No . . . more
December 29, 2008 10:10 AM EST -- When I talk to friends about the idea of writing my American novel   "live" on the Internet, their response ranges from "A-mazing!" to an adamant, "I'll never . . . more
January 24, 2008 03:02 AM EST -- Time for basic and dumb questions, the answers to which might save other people's time from being wasted by me Since I just joined a while ago, I have been adding groups every week. What happens . . . more
December 06, 2007 05:16 PM EST -- I worked with James Michener on his South African novel, The Covenant, involved in every stage of the book from its conception and plotting to final manuscript.   . . . more
December 06, 2007 05:25 PM EST -- I worked with James Michener on his South African novel, The Covenant, involved in every stage of the book from its conception and plotting to final manuscript.   This  unique . . . more
August 12, 2008 02:17 PM EDT -- Over the years, I've received many wonderful letters and e-mails from readers of my novel, Brazil. These excerpts are from ten of my favorites, words of appreciation that make my epic literary . . . more
August 08, 2007 12:35 PM EDT -- On the last stage of the journey, one theme dominated the concerns of Patient Anthony and other slaves: the senhor to whom they would be sold. Policarpo was in his late twenties. He'd had two masters . . . more
December 06, 2007 05:58 PM EST -- I worked with James Michener on his South African novel, The Covenant, involved in every stage of the book from its conception and plotting to final manuscript.   This  unique . . . more
January 11, 2008 12:49 AM EST -- The Flanders Panel (TFP) by Arturo Perez-Reverte was written by one of my favoriteauthors. I have read about 80% of his novels that have been translatedinto English. The writing is always outstanding. . . . more
January 16, 2008 03:52 AM EST -- For reasons that aren't entirely clear, I have started another blog . The main site is called www.Uber.com, a site for artistic expression in any medium, including music and the visual arts, and . . . more
January 20, 2008 07:55 PM EST -- Exceprted from a recent post on my fiction blog (the blog's review is much longer, but I did lengthen this version): Having neglected Latin American literature for too long, we'll delveinto . . . more
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