Maria Espinosa's Blog

• LEE CRONBACH'S MUSIC

  September 1, 2009

  • MY BROTHER'S COOL JAZZwww.leecronbach.com When my brother, Lee Cronbach, was a teenager he played the piano in a way that haunted me because his improvisations seemed to echo something in my own spirit.  He played with a driving rhythm, fusing elements of jazz and Middle Eastern music. Over the years he has lived in Berkeley, Boston, Los Angeles, and for the last seventeen years he has ...
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• RADIO INTERVIEWS

  August 23, 2009

  • RADIO INTERVIEWS   Over the past few months I’ve had phone interviews with radio show hosts based in different parts of the country such as Louisiana, Tennessee, Washington, DC, Colorado, and Los Angeles. All this has been in the course of publicizing DYING UNFINISHED, a tangled, edgy novel.   It has been in effect talking into space to an invisible mass of listeners.  ...
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• the real taboo

  August 19, 2009

  • THE REAL TABOO   Today I talked to a book group. I talked about the complexity of human character, the mutability of emotion.  One formidable woman in her eighties asked if I had ever fallen in love. What is love? I mused.  She announced that she indeed knew what was to fall in love. Did you stay in love? I asked. Yes, she said firmly. I stayed in love for sixty years.   For her, ...
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