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In writing, as in sports, "if you want to compete you have to train."
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Isabel Allende has seen her American grandchildren grow up to embrace technology and rugged individuality.
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Some of Isabel Allende’s best fiction has been inspired by private correspondence. Yet as Twitter replaces the letter, she fears that we’re losing "the beauty of language."
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Isabel Allende fell in love with New Orleans just before Katrina, and Haiti just before the earthquake. The quake in her native Chile didn’t shake her as much.
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Why female writers are so often overlooked in Latin American literary studies.
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In memoirs, the author must decide "what is mine to tell and what is not mine to tell." But in fiction, "I do whatever I want."
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Writers only need to gather stories and tell them. "I'm not trying to deliver any kind of mission, and I don’t think I have a mission—except telling a story," says […]
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What the "Island Beneath the Sea" author’s desk looks like and why she starts each new novel on January 8th.
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Like magic realism, Isabel Allende’s life has transcended borders.
There was a philosopher once who had no patience with geekish hype about information technology. This application, he wrote, would never make people smarter or better. In fact, it made […]
Urban farming has been one of the biggest socio-environmental trends of late. But, so far, it's been a fairly high-commitment, high-maintenance game requiring a demanding amount of time, resources and […]
Glenn Roberts, the founder of Anson Mills in Columbia, S.C. wants to save Southern food culture, one grain at a time. He thinks the traditional cuisine of the South is […]
Catherine Asaro, the bestselling science-fiction author, uses concepts from physics and math to inform the fantastical stories of her characters. In a recent interview with Big Think, Asaro describes how […]
Today I review Deborah Rhode's excellent book, "The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Work" (Oxford University Press, 2010) for Working In These Times. Here are a […]
Sustainability obviously means a lot to the founder of the Copenhagen Climate Council. But Erik Rasmussen, also the CEO of Scandinavian's leading independent think tank Monday Morning, isn't sugar coating […]
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The monologue from her one-woman show reflects a point in her life when the playwright began feeling more connected with Middle Eastern culture.
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The playwright says the situation in the Mideast isn't about Mulsims in conflict with Jews, or even about land—it's a human rights issue.
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The playwright says she tries to maintain a humanist perspective: "Each person who interacts with me is a human being and they are the sum of all of the things […]
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It's emotionally intense for Najla Said to relive her childhood of cultural confusion and her eating disorder on stage.