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Camille J. Cusumano's Blog
October 22, 2009
- What Mark Sanford did for love and Buenos Aires This evening in Buenos Aires, I danced at Confíteria La Ideal, the salon where Madonna was filmed performing tango in Evita. Like so much of Argentina's capital, La Ideal with its marble stairs, Greek columns, beveled mirrors, and dark wood, is an architectural masterpiece but in a bit of disrepair. All of which adds to the romance ...
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April 23, 2009
- Hey, come on down to Argentina for this writing workshop and mix pleasure with pleasurable business:From my Web site's pitch for the next workshop: There’s no more inspiring way to practice travel writing than to immerse yourself in a foreign culture. Anyone can craft an image-rich postcard to send home, but how do you fashion prose with style and substance— that give your writing broader ...
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February 27, 2009
- Hola! Just checking in, as I've been in transition for a while as I get re-settled down here in Buenos Aires. I've added a few new posts to my own Web site/blog that may interest you:Watch a 3-minute video of my current apartment here in the Recoleta Barrio (up for rent now):http://www.camillecusumano.com/uncategorized/recoleta-apartment-for-rent-in-buenos-aires/Read about why Argentines are not ...
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December 11, 2008
- Here is why you should buy my book as gift for loved ones - it certainly is among books that have "something a little more personal." Tango, an Argentine Love Story is about my extraordinary year living and dancing tango in Buenos Aires. It's filled with wisdom and inspiration from my 20 years of Zen and yoga practices, as well as from dancing a sensual close-embrace dance that can't ...
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December 2, 2008
- It was purely synchronicity at the outset---four or five days before I heard about this novel-writing contest, I had penned a "character" in my journal who awoke in the middle of the night, oh no, not again, with the ennuis. I sensed there was more to her than a mere journal entry. But I've been busy with promo and public appeareances for my just-released memoir, TANGO, AN ARGENTINE ...
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November 20, 2008
- You can listen to an interview by Felicia Pride on Tango, an Argentine Love Story, here:http://www.sealpress.com/podcasts.php
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November 20, 2008
- I'm mad at these forms again. I've spent 20 minutes trying to find the form for my "Influences" but the Web site is being very disagreeable, hence here I am adding the names of influences I didn't have time to add the first time around: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Gioia Timpanelli, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrel, Nikki Giovanni, Suzuki Roshi, Joni Mitchell, Woody Allen, Flaubert, ...
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October 31, 2008
- I am entering the NaNoWriMo 2008 because I always wanted to write like Andre Breton. I am sure I can write a well organized, structured, plotted, charactered, thematized novel in the first sitting. Maybe I'll write one per day. Maybe I'll submit the 30 original novels to the city's best writing coach late on Nov 29, and ask which one? which one? It would be worth th $60,000---unless she offers me ...
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October 21, 2008
- I'm just back from Portland, Oregon, the tango festival. I'm still euphoric. The tango was sublime. My book reception was outstanding. More on it later. I'd like to offer a few of the venues where I'll be presenting my book, Tango, an Argentine Love Story. I'm hoping to receive the many people forced to turn back from the book launch at Fort Mason, Sunday, Oct 5, because of Hell's Angels (or the ...
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October 10, 2008
- Hey, I'm in the New York Times today doing what I do very well---nothing. See the article---I'm in the photo, shot October 4, 2008. I'm the one in the burgundy top. Unless you're my mother, you're forgiven if you don't recognize me from the back. Gotta run---but I posted more indepth commentary and photos of SF Zen Center at my site:
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September 11, 2008
- I am reluctant to tread such volatile and controversial territory. But I can't resist this once. The other night I heard famous neurologist, Oliver Sacks, speaking about his book, Musicophilia, on NPR. He described a patient who had been struck by lightning, in the face no less. He recovered and then, at age 40 or so, suddenly became highly musical and spiritual. He became a classical performer ...
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September 11, 2008
- I was born at a very early age. I liked to escape into books a lot. Every writer says that. I wish I had something original to say. And I do. I liked having a big family and living in a small house, a Cape Cod with under 1,000 feet of living space. We were 12 people, two parents, 10 kids. I shared a tiny dormer with an attic ceiling with two sisters. I slept in the middle of our double bed. To ...
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