Stuart Archer Cohen's Blog
May 3, 2015
Chinese Gardens
What's up with a Chinese Garden? Take a small space. Divide in into random pieces, then divide those into random pieces. Connect them with a maze of galleries, buildings, passageways, tunnels and doors shaped like vases or moons. Create some miniature mountains, tiny rivers, lakes and quarter-acre oceans. Name each feature according to places in poetry and legend, so that you're wandering through a world of mountains and metaphor, all intimately connected. If you do it right, it's infinite.
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A book is also a sort of Chinese Garden.
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A book is also a sort of Chinese Garden.
August 16, 2013
New Novel Sold
ST. Martin's Press bought my novel, tentatively titled, "This is How It Really Sounds." Thank you, George Witte!
A very difficult novel written at a difficult time: after the emotional drain of AOR and the feeling that my writing "career," was over, that I'd never finish another book.
As usual, I wanted to do something more difficult than I'd done before, and after the intense complexity of AOR, I wanted to do something completely non-logical, completely intuitive.
Completely disparate things floating around. The world Extreme Skiing champion circa 1992, when no one knew what Extreme skiing was. A faded rock star who's lost all his money. A corporate Courtesan who lives in a Chinese garden, an 88 year old assassin, a disgraced financier living large in Shanghai. Etc. And behind it all, something about fire, snow, cold, avalanches. This is how it really sounds
A very difficult novel written at a difficult time: after the emotional drain of AOR and the feeling that my writing "career," was over, that I'd never finish another book.
As usual, I wanted to do something more difficult than I'd done before, and after the intense complexity of AOR, I wanted to do something completely non-logical, completely intuitive.
Completely disparate things floating around. The world Extreme Skiing champion circa 1992, when no one knew what Extreme skiing was. A faded rock star who's lost all his money. A corporate Courtesan who lives in a Chinese garden, an 88 year old assassin, a disgraced financier living large in Shanghai. Etc. And behind it all, something about fire, snow, cold, avalanches. This is how it really sounds
