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Cecilia M. Fernandez I spend a lot of time "prewriting" which allows me to make notes and actually write segments and sections of a book in a nonlinear fashion. This takes…moreI spend a lot of time "prewriting" which allows me to make notes and actually write segments and sections of a book in a nonlinear fashion. This takes the anxiety out of writing and destroys the psychological resistance to writing.(less)
Cecilia M. Fernandez Writing gives me a purpose for living. As a writer I escape the mundane into a world I embellish through my own code of aesthetics. To live in that wo…moreWriting gives me a purpose for living. As a writer I escape the mundane into a world I embellish through my own code of aesthetics. To live in that world is a privilege and to share it with readers who call or email me is like no other experience in life.(less)
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Leaving Little Havana: A Me...

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Grieving for Guava

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Flags and Rafts

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The Button Box

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Beyond

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This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley
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Mudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates
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Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. by Joyce Carol Oates
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Disturbing

An examination of a family that revolves around a dead husband and father. The kids are despicable. The widow, whose story this is, survives her former limited life to marry again.
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Fox by Joyce Carol Oates
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Tremendous

Leaves your heart raked over by the wire gardening tool you may keep in the garage. Leaves your thoughts reeling from a wild ride in a Ferris wheel. Always surprising. Ghastly. Gross.
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A Massacre in Memphis by Stephen V. Ash
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Brilliant collection of documents

History lovers will get a new look at what really happened in the Memphis riot of 1868: A few hundred Irish decided to kill 46 blacks in racial rage.
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New York Burning by Jill Lepore
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Ghosts Of Gold Mountain by Gordon H. Chang
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Under a Broken Sky by Dougie McHale
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The betrayal of the Great Plains

The tragedy of the death of the Great Plains in the 1930s comes alive through the stories of those who lost everything in the big dust storms. An important book of the history of this time and place
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Simone de Beauvoir
“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

Anaïs Nin
“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
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Pierre Abélard
“Assiduous and frequent questioning is indeed the first key to wisdom... for by doubting we come to inquiry; through inquiring we perceive the truth...”
Peter Abelard, Sic Et Non: A Critical Edition

Socrates
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
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Junot Díaz
“Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.”
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