Blog Posts for Camille J. Cusumano

Travel Writing 101 Workshops, Buenos Aires

Camille J. Cusumano — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:29:59 -0800

Check out my 2010 writing workshops in Buenos Aires. There are three, all two-days, with emphasis on three easy goals: crafting a great story, considering where it might be published, getting it published. The dollar has never been stronger against the peso - so it's really cheap for Americans to travel there now. See more details on the workshops at: ...

Buenos Aires, better than Paris

Camille J. Cusumano — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:38:21 -0700

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 ...

Substance & Style in Travel Writing, Mendoza, Argentina

Camille J. Cusumano — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:44:12 -0700

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 ...

Dispatch from Buenos Aires

Camille J. Cusumano — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:40:42 -0800

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 ...

My addition to Editors at Redroom holiday pix

Camille J. Cusumano — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:33:28 -0800

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 ...

NaNoWriMo --fait accompli

Camille J. Cusumano — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:11:07 -0800

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 ...

Felicia Pride interviews Camille Cusumano

Camille J. Cusumano — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:25:23 -0800

You can listen to an interview by Felicia Pride on Tango, an Argentine Love Story, here:http://www.sealpress.com/podcasts.php

Influences, addendum

Camille J. Cusumano — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:08:16 -0800

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, ...

NaNoWriMo 2008- why am I doing this

Camille J. Cusumano — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:04:53 -0700

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 ...

Tango in Bohemia, San Francisco

Camille J. Cusumano — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:27:12 -0700

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 ...