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May.13.2013
The portrait of Juan de Pareja by Velázquez that hangs in a gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan is surrounded by other estimable works, even a few of genius. But this work compels the viewer to look. It is a portrait of personal disappointment and anguish, and its great beauty...
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Apr.12.2013
The news that the Chilean government has exhumed Pablo Neruda's remains, to determine whether or not his death was caused by poisoning, brings a new, but not surprising, twist to Neruda's life, even forty years after his demise.
Neruda died just days after his friend Salvador Allende, the...
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Mar.31.2013
Please do yourself a favor and check out the Fighting Videos video at Roddy Doyle's Fighting Words...
Not to be missed.
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Mar.25.2013
In today's issue of Huffington Post, I have a piece about the pricing and marketing struggle that is going on between the largest chain book retailer still standing and one of the most prestigious publishing companies in the United States. It's a complicated battle, and the stakes are high...
"The...
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Mar.14.2013
With the election yesterday of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as Pope, the political scene in Argentina began to shift. What this means to the average Argentine – much less for Argentine president Cristina Kirchner - remains to be seen. But Facundo Chaves, a reporter for the Buenos Aires daily...
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Mar.14.2013
Many thanks to Red Room for mentioning my New York stories as an “Editors Pick”. Each of the stories is set in contemporary New York City, and I now have ten of them. I’ll be writing a few more until I get to a book-length manuscript, which will be published in ebook and print editions next year....
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Mar.01.2013
Hope you'll look at this new story of mine. Here's an excerpt:
She brought him into her studio, the second bedroom in her large apartment. The windows looked down on Fort Washington Avenue and, as she showed him around, traffic noise came in from outside, chaotic rumblings to accompany the rambling...
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Feb.06.2013
"My grandfather gave me a job!" Andrew Skurman laughs. "That's how I got so interested in architecture."
Skurman sits back, folds his arms before him and enters what is clearly an affectionate recollection. "He had a company in the Bronx making elevators and, when I was 14, they needed draftsmen...
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Jan.31.2013
David Kennard leans lovingly over the glass before him, which is filled with the somber beauty of a vintage French pinot noir. He surveys the wine a moment, and then takes a sip, enjoying every sensation that it gives him. "We spent one full year with people who make wine like no one else in...
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Jan.08.2013
"At times we come across work by an author unknown to us and the impact is so intense that it leaves us wondering why this is a first encounter. Terence Clarke is that sort of writer. Look up information about him and as important as he is there is not a lot written about him. Where was he born...
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Jan.04.2013
"Yo soy americano," I said to Sonia Fava. I did not realize that my accent (North American English-speaking to the core) was terrible. The "R", for example, in "americano" had no trill of any kind and therefore marked me as an arriviste hick. This was my first class in the Spanish language with...
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Dec.22.2012
I'm very pleased and honored to have been named Director of Publishing for the new Red Room Press. The website page is still under construction and should be up by January 1 or so. It will feature many things: Red Room Press activities, of course; a blog/forum open to all in which we discuss the...
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Dec.12.2012
A piece by Stephanie Sun of Huffington Post, published today.
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Dec.12.2012
A new HuffPost piece by me, about the end of the letter as a vital literary genre, and its replacement by...well, something else.
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Nov.27.2012
Comedian Will Durst's most recent book is Elect To Laugh!, a very humorous look at the recent presidential politics and election. It was published by Red Room Press (from which much more will be coming soon). San Francisco journalist Sam Whiting interviewed Will, a conversation that appeared in...
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I read every word of these stories (Little Bridget And The Flames Of Hell), not through professional obligation but through genuine enjoyment, engagement, admiration of Terence Clarke's mastery of the craft...I was literally moved to tears by some of these stories, transported by all of them into a world of Irish nuns, immigrants, mad poets, white-collar workers, errant priests, lawyers with, of all things, a heart... When I first got into publishing thirty-five years ago, it was with the hope of publishing literature of this integrity, rendered with such skill and bigness of heart.
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—Malcolm Margolin, Heyday Books
About Terence
Mercury House and Ballantine Books published three of my novels, all to high critical praise. My latest novel A Kiss For Señor Guevara was published in July, 2010. A collection of stories titled Little Bridget and The Flames of Hell was published this...
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Pride and Prejudice, Heart of Darkness, Great Expectations, Memory of Fire trilogy, Love In The Time Of Cholera, The Collected Stories of Gabriel García...
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