Kathleen de Azevedo | Red Room Writer Profile

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I was born in Rio de Janeiro but have lived most of my life in the United States. Consequently, my work often reflects the conflict between the Brazilian and the American culture: the sensual and the pragmatic; the myth of self- determination and the myth of El Dorado.
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Revolution
November 13, 2009
- I don't want to talk about revolutions which have happened, but ones which should happen, and as this is a literary blog, I would like to do a shout of for the Latino writer or should we say: Donde estan? Or in my tongue of Portuguese: Onde sao? Or in my slag English: Where in the hell are they?Ok, there are SOME. We are given Sanda Cisneros et al so that we don't feel completely ignored. We are ...
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My favorite city
October 21, 2009
- We would like to think that our favorite cities are the beautiful ones. I live in San Francisco and I was born in Rio de Janeiro. What two cities could be more perfect for firing up the poetical imagination? Yet the city that inspires me to write is Reno, Nevada.I spent my high school years in a small town in California close to Reno. Reno was our "big city". You have to imagine coming ...
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