American - Author | August 6, 1969 -
The kitchen is the heart of the house.
Alvaro Enrigue
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The well-known inspiration for 'Ulysses' is made clear by the title itself: Joyce's novel is based on Homer's 'Odyssey', under the ever-fascinating premise that all of Odysseus' extraordinary adventures can be experienced by a modern man in a single day, provided that the writing consists of his mental activity.
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Caravaggio was a tormented, defiant, bisexual, angry young man - a maestro who looked nothing like a maestro.
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I work with history because I come from a country that has a tremendous thirst for reality.
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I don't believe in inspiration at all. We live in a world that demands explanation. And fiction has the capability to offer explanations for things.
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I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.
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I was not able to be the front forward of a soccer team - that is a way to make people super happy every Sunday. What I can do is tell stories and try to put my coin in that discussion.
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If you read the poets of the 19th century in Latin America, you would see that Havana or Mexico City or Buenos Aires are incredibly modern and global cities that they were not. And eventually they became real, and they became real because people read these books and tried to live in a better world.
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There is this brutal side to tennis. It was invented as a game for kings and cardinals and people with a lot of power who didn't have to share the field with other players.
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New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.
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Great rock n' roll comes from suburbia.
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In Mexico, I think I'm considered conservative. Not politically - in terms of form and experimentation.
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