Apparently it was a little more startling in San Jose near the epicenter.
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He often makes final revisions to his books on the veranda of his French home, with only oak forests, vineyards and sunflower fields to distract him. It's difficult to imagine a place farther from the pulsating streets of Bangkok.
"The distance forces the imagination to work," Mr. Burdett said. "It becomes an imaginative exercise rather than a factual research exercise. It's a good mental trick to play if you can."
I guess that helps explain why it's easier for me, and perhaps most people, to write about an experience long after it's happened. For example, when I was in Japan teaching English, I found myself writing copiously about San Francisco. After I got back to SF, I found myself setting stories in Japan.
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What personal problems are worked out in the story must be unconscious. My preoccupations are technical. My preoccupation is how I am going to get the bull's horns into this woman's ribs. Of course why his horns belong in her ribs is something more fundamental but I can say I give [sic] it much thought. Perhaps you are able to see things in these stories that I can't see because if I did see I would be too frightened to write them. I have always insisted that there is a fine grain of stupidity required in the fiction writer.Previously: Another instance in which O'Connor resisted interpretation of one of her stories.
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Note several themes:A Colombian poet's love for a woman is tested.
A young man -- and an elephant -- save a Depression-era circus.
An Afghan-American returns to Kabul to learn how a childhood friend has fared under the Taliban.
An epic story about three generations of Greek-Americans, told by a hermaphrodite.
A doctor's decision to secretly send his newborn daughter, who has Down syndrome, to an institution haunts everyone involved.
Privileged 30-somethings try to make their way in literary New York just before 9/11.
A rift in an Amish community threatens to keep a courting couple apart.
A Spanish shepherd boy travels to Egypt in search of treasure.
A father and son travel in post-apocalypse America.
Politics and treachery in the court of Henry VIII.
The lives of two women in 19th-century China.
An unlikely romance between a soldier and an idealistic young woman is tested in the aftermath of 9/11.
A girl sues her parents after learning they want her to donate a kidney to her sibling.
An Amish teenager goes on trial, accused of having a baby, then smothering it to death.
A team is dispatched to investigate the wreckage of a Soviet bomber that crashed 50 years ago, loaded with weaponized anthrax.
Romance blooms between a widower and a woman who's been teaching his brother, who has Down syndrome, to live independently.
The story, set mainly in northern India, of characters united by the legacy of colonialism.
A cafe manager falls for a Cary Grant-like charmer, then learns he has an 11-year-old daughter.
An American third-string quarterback joins the Italian National Football League's Parma Panthers.
How the choices made by a North Carolina man and the neighbor with whom he falls in love play out in their lives
Virgil Flowers investigates three murders in a small Minnesota town.
A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war.
An aspiring photographer working as a nanny has terrible visions.
The entangled lives of an upstate New York couple and their best friend.
Two young black men, adopted in childhood by the former mayor of Boston, encounter their birth mother and sister
Stone Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, tracks a rogue C.I.A. agent on a Caribbean island.
The dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden seeks vengeance against the orcs.
Someone is out to destroy a young chef's New market restaurant, poisoning food and setting off a bomb.
A woman finds a skull in her garden, while in the 1830s, a medical student tracks a killer.
Nathan Zuckerman grapples with aging and desire.
In Lake Wobegon, a daughter learns about her mother's secret life.
Two sisters overcome their differences and claim their heritage when one returns to their North Carolina home.
Another Christmas story featuring the angels Shirley, Goodness and Mercy.
One travels back in time, road-wise, going from asphalt to dirt to a treacherous stone-filled path that acts as the lookout's driveway. And then you hike. Up past an outhouse, up past the spot where rattlesnakes like to sun themselves and up two flights of metal stairs...But a close look at the photograph published with the NYT piece shows a truck parked only a couple hundred yards away:
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