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Sleep is good, death is better, yet surely never to have been born is best

on November 12, 2013

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3 hours per day

"In the days of the typewriter, a double-spaced page with 1-inch margins would hold an average of 250 words. So you could assume that since 4 pages = 1000 words, 240 pages = 60,000 words, which was the typical length for most mainstream and mystery novels." But then again I'm not writing a mystery novel. If anything fashion, money and world food are the overriding themes. And I'm working slow, about 2,000 words per week, but constantly, 3 hours per day, every day, feeling the rhythm under my fingertips, like a first time long distance runner, drinking water, checking my pulse often, erring on the side of caution. All my life I had written poetry, which was like running into a dark forest in the middle of the night until passing out and then checking if the images were good in the morning. I remember having to sleep for three days straight after a particularly taxing poem. You can't do that with the novel. Or you could, but then you would probably end up killing yo

It's been a couple of years since I promoted a book...

Patricio Maya talks about his first book, featuring an interview with Ruben Luengas Walking Around with Fante and Bukowski is the first book by LA based journalist Patricio Maya. It compiles several short essays on the aforementioned topics and biographical narrations. Entre Noticias interviewed Mr. Maya about his work, that can be purchased on Amazon . By H. Espinoza. When he was in Ecuador, the author thought of the United States as this dreamy land where the roads are wide and open for the young and free minded people. Having moved to California at the age of 12, now he reminisces South America as the oneiric scenario where his earliest concepts of life originated. This cultural displacement becomes the guiding light that allows Patricio Maya to explore the endemic struggle of a young immigrant: finding out what is your place in the world. From childhood memories, extensive literature remarks and interviews with renowned artists and personalities (inc

Walking Around With Fante and Bukowski is out

My book of essays is now available: http://www.amazon.com/Walking-Around-Fante-Bukowski-displacement/dp/0986273406

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