Chitra Divakaruni's Blog

• Tofusion

  May 29, 2009

  • Apologies for the long gap between entries. I was finishing  my novel, One Amazing Thing, literally working on it day and night. Everything else fell by the wayside. It was intense. My  family lived on sandwiches and pizza. (I suspect the boys didn't mind the pizza bit too much). But now that the household is slowly being restored to normal and I'm back in the kitchen, I thought I'd indulge in ...
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• Writers in the Schools Poem by 4th Grader

  April 19, 2009

  • The Writers in the Schools program (Houston) sent me this lovely poem by 4th grader Cody, titled Ink Heart:What the night hides:/a stranger in the dark,/ fire and stars, /snakes and thorns,/ a house full of books,/a night full of words,/ the lion's den,/ going farther south. Love that last enigmatic line, Cody! Folks, were you writing like that in 4th ...
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• I Googlophile or, Yes, There Are Free Lunches

  April 16, 2009

  • Recently I was at the Google headquarters at Mountain View to give an Authors@Google talk (now up on You Tube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPbSw5Yo2TA)--and I have to say, I was quite charmed. The "campus" is appropriately named. Watching numerous blue-jeaned young men and women ride their bikes (provided by Google) from one building to another, or pause their ...
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