Category Archives: writing

On Writing – Patrick Dennis

November 24, 2013 – 11:38 am

“I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.” – Patrick Dennis, author of AUNTIE MAME.

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Gore Vidal RIP

August 4, 2012 – 2:33 am

Gore Vidal passed away at the tender age of 86. The provocative novelist wrote twenty-five novels on social and historical issues. My favorite book was 1876 about the stolen election between Samuel Tilden and the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, which harbingered the flawed 2000 election between GW Bush and Al Gore, whom was a distant […]

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Up Country Blackout

July 31, 2012 – 10:20 pm

I’m upcountry in the Western Forests of Thailand. There are no farangs on the mountainous border on Burma. Just me and that’s more than enough for me, so please excuse the absence on Mangozeen, but I’ve been re-writing my hitchhiking novel BACK AND FORTH I’ll be back in civilization this evening. Have the London Olympics […]

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Ray Bradbury RIP

June 8, 2012 – 11:02 am

In 1953 Ray Bradbury wrote FAHRENHEIT 451 at a rented room at UCLA’s Powell Library. The total cost for rent and typewriter was $9.80. The title was in reference to the temperature at which paper ie a book is combustible. “In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that […]

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