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Andrew Cotto

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Andrew Cotto is the award-winning author and a regular contributor to The New York Times. Andrew has also written for Men’s Journal, Rolling Stone, Conde Nast Traveler, La Cucina Italiana, Brooklyn Magazine, Rachael Ray In Season, AARP, Italy magazine, The Huffington Post, Parade, Salon, Maxim, Deadspin, Relish, the Good Men Project and Teachers & Writers Magazine. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School.

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Andrew Cotto I avoid struggling to find things to write by knowing what I want to write before I sit down.
Andrew Cotto Being able to take ideas, which are essentially smoke, and make them into something real.
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“My mother's mother came to this country in the usual way--she got on a boat with other immigrants and sailed from Sicily. She wasn't one of them, however: neither tired nor poor or part of any huddled mass. Instead, she traveled alone, with her money in one sock and a knife in the other, coming to the new world with an old world motive--to murder the man that had left her for America.”
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“The lady in the liquor store sold me a fifth of whiskey and the landlord’s name without taking her eyes off the book she was reading.”
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“In the open sky above the hushed streets, the moon was a porcelain plate on a black table as I walked home. A breeze raised the collar of my jeans jacket as I sliced through the silvery silence, past unlit buildings and quivering trees and cars idle by the curb. The air felt like glass. I crossed empty corners under the mauve light of overhead lamps.”
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Lorraine Venter Great to meet you Andrew. My debut novel: The Secret of Green Hills is a crime fiction story. I'd be very grateful for a review. On amazon kindle and books plus barnes and noble nook books.Thanks, Lorraine


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