Henriette Lazaridis

A couple of favorites from Oman now that I’m experimenting with Photoninja

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Something interesting happened to me last night. I was walking home from the T late in the evening and was more than halfway into the crosswalk on a side street. I saw that an SUV on the main str...

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No is a very powerful word in Greek culture. I write this just a few miles as the crow flies from a hillside on which the word ΟΧΙ (NO) is written in white-painted stones. It has nothing to do...

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Talking about The Clover House and characters on the move, at Boston's South Station May 15

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The Feeling | GrubStreet : My latest for the Grub Daily. > You know the feeling, that feeling of a tickle or a whisper, or even > less a faint presence of something in t...

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A propos of nothing except my abiding fascination with Robert Falcon Scott and Antarctica, I am struck for the umpteenth time by his final words from his final letter: > We took risks, we ...

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The Millions : Honey, Would You Read My Book? : “It’s been said that the experience of writing is like that of falling in love. The writer enters an exciting new world in which experience i...

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7 Ways Writers Can Learn From Sports | Henriette Lazaridis : Just some thoughts on how useful sports can be in creative life.

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That they had in old age finished up by buying houses next door to each other in a village where there was absolutely nothing to do must have been the result of something the lolling gods had set...

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millionsmillions : > “In many ways, it is exactly like JAMES JOYCE’s A Portrait of > the Artist as a Young Man — but with the benefit of being 100 > pages shor...

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I have been thinking about silence lately. Which is a strange situation for a writer to be in, used as I am to communicating in some way all of the time. At the same time, while thoughts of sile...

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Near the very end of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro comes the moment when the philandering Count Almaviva, fresh from yet another discovery of his betrayal, asks his wife for forgiveness. “C...

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Papingo, Zagori, Epirus, Greece November 2014

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Soon after the death of Gabriel García Márquez, I wrote about the opening sentence of One Hundred Years of Solitude , a glorious sentence if there ever was one. For months, I have been thinking...

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Gamila Peak, Zagori, Epirus, Greece

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In an earlier life, I used to be an academic, and I was deeply involved in the vast critical industry that surrounds James Joyce. There is an annual conference, alternating between cities in Euro...

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Good people of the writing world, please take a moment to consider the history of narrative as you bemoan the death of the novel. Stories have come to us in many platforms and through many differ...

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Literary Mothers : juliafierro : > Submit an essay to this important new project about female literary > influence! Open to male AND female writers writing about the wom...

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“The difference between a Not Writer and a Writer is the difference between someone who *could* write and someone who *does*. A Not Writer is someone who experiences blocks and obstacles and ti...

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emwoodhouse : > printing three copies of my thesis in a row sorry world Woohoo!

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