Why you shouldn´t be compelled to finish reading every book you start
Reading one book a week, you can only fit 52 titles a year. With little time to waste, you can and should only read books that grab your attention.
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Writing as a form of mindful therapy in midlife & beyond
Writing can be used as a form of therapy. It helps us meditate our past and place us in perspective with the world around us.
The passion for writing: innate or acquired?
These days the passion for writing seems to be getting a hold of everyone. It captures so many people, so deeply, that we often…
4 Books Latino grandparents can read to their grandchildren
I don’t know about you, but I loved the stories that were told to me by my abuelita. I remember sitting down with her…
Phillippe Diederich publishes debut novel at 50
Phillippe Diederich is a Haitian-American writer and photographer born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Mexico City and Miami. His short fiction has…
Immersion: the art of inspiring kids in pockets of time
When you think of the word immersion, do you picture an adult in deep mental involvement, hours at a time, or perhaps a language…
Kim Gordon’s ‘Girl in a Band’ Got me Hooked
So I read Kim Gordon’s Girl in a Band (Feb. 24, Dey St./HarperCollins) and I couldn’t put the sucka down even though I wasn’t…
Sandra Cisneros helped me publish my first novel
Sandra Cisneros rocks my world. Twenty years after I first read The House on Mango Street, and thirty years since it was first published,…
Q&A with Julia Navarro, author of “Shoot Me, I’m Already Dead”
Julia Navarro (Madrid, 1953), a former political journalist, once said she started writing novels by pure chance. Today, with over five million copies of…
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