Every day is like Christmas morning. Seriously. I look at my bookshelf in my study, and see my own book there, among my other books, with the bright pink-black-and-white spine, and I think, I wrote that book, here in this room, and now, there it is, in hardcover. I still can't wrap my mind around it.
Absolutely. The closest I've ever come to a complete restart was a moment when I was twenty-three. I was trying to juggle the stress of graduate school, my mother's recent death, and several romantic train wrecks. I said, "I think a part of me loves the sadness." And my therapist said, "Yes, I think you have a romance with melancholy." And I said, "You're right. I don't want to be that way anymore." So I disidentified with that way of being. I'd recognized it was simply not a viable way to continue. On the bus ride home, I thought: I don't know what I am without my sadness, but I have to build a new self, on a deeper reality, if I'm to survive.
I wanted to make the point that the United States is not the apple of the world's eye, so to speak. Or even if it is, it won't be forever. The insularity of American literature, in particular, bugs me, if for no other reason than it's symptomatic of a larger failure of imagination. We can do so much better.
For sure. Similar structures already exist. It's just a matter of whether the technology is cost-effective, which is ultimately a question for engineers.
I can't say I liked writing one better, but I can say that Mariama was much easier to write than Meena. Mariama's very open, a true innocent. Meena was much harder to get to know--she holds her cards close to the chest, and is way too smart to have easy answers to anything.
No. I think people who think 'women have a long way to go' have a long way to go. We're already here. We always have been.
Sex is a part of life!--creatively, emotionally, spiritually. I think, Isn't it for everyone?, and then I remember: bah, Puritan influence. I was intensely aware of my body when I was traveling, in all of its aspects, including the sexual one, and wanted to represent that truthfully. Several readers have told me that they appreciate the poop scene, too. Traditional adventure stories are often weirdly disconnected from the body, aside from food matters. But we all poop. And adventures are made up of so many mundane, monkey-mind moments--food, poop, attraction, aversion, sex--just like daily life.
No plans for a sequel to The Girl in the Road, but definitely for a Novel #2, set in the Maya cave systems of western Belize. Most of the research is done and I'm cranking out a thousand words a day. It's wonderful to be back in the trenches of actually creating something ex nihilo.
True! I was writing a column for The MIT Tech called "I Did It For Science" and, like a good scientist, empirically observed that I loved writing those columns way more than I loved writing my thesis. Like three orders of magnitude more. Conveniently, at the same time, my advisor was burning all his bridges at MIT, so I thought it was a good time to throw in the towel and follow my heart.
I feel so lucky to have the scientific toolbox at my disposal. It includes, for example, a certain mercilessness when it comes to edits: "Does this work? No? Then cut it." If you believe (as I do) that the artwork already exists, and you just have to channel or uncover it, the process is actually very similar to science. You're articulating a system.
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