Thaisa Frank's Blog

• Three Lives Bookstore---An Entrance into the Reason for Books and Reading

  November 22, 2009

  • To my great relief, it was still here. Nestled among trees, on the corner of 10th Street in Greenwich Village. Still filled with burnished lamps, and a panoply of books that chattered to themselves. I'd been here many times, but this time it was in the middle of an exhausting tour, where it's easy to forget that most books involve an invisible meeting between a writer and a reader. Three Lives is ...
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• Many Ways to Live to be 100 and Write

  November 7, 2009

  • here's a refreshing article about the work habits of published writers--all different(these are novelists, so a lot of them do research; but the various work styles apply to poets and writers of shorter fiction)  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703740004574513463106012106.html 
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• More Surrealism--Times Review of Memories of the Future by the Russian writer Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

  October 24, 2009

  • In relation to the blog below, see the review of MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE in the NYTimes this Sunday. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/books/review/Schillinger-t.html?_r=1&ref=review Another writer who blurred the lines between sleeping and waking, nightmare and reality.Deep down, this kind of writing, raises a profound human question: What is it to be fully awake? and What is it to dream? ...
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