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The next day, my ever-industrious Paulista cousin, Theo Castilho showed up again at the Lizard Lodge Hotel where we were holed up. This time he came bearing a rare invitation to me and the now calm and collected love of my life. Cousin Theo asked us to join him as his Guests of Honor that […]
read more70. TRUE ROMANCE “You’re never too old to grow up.” — Shirley Conran After eating in comfortable silence for awhile, I asked Antonio how he was doing. Suddenly he started confiding to me about his dilemma with the current girlfriend. I’d met the girl with him the last time I’d seen him at the beach […]
read moreOur long awaited Big Day in NYC finally fell on Saturday. After the crazy buildup, it all came and went in sort of a wild, overhwelming blur. The bits and pieces I do remember, however, are all quite happy and even monumental. Just the fact that after months of anticipation it finally actually happened and […]
read moreAD: That brings me to another question… What made you decide to put those quotes at the beginning of every chapter, anyway? JS: Well that was really something weird, the way that sort of came about. It’s a kinda funny story — funny peculiar though, not so much funny ha ha… When […]
read moreAD: It seems like you quote Nietzsche alot. Is he your favorite author to quote from? JS: Not at all… I just happened to stumble across a book of Nietzsche at the exact time I was going through the whole process of writing and editing Narcisa, and then the Narcisa character just spontaneously became like […]
read moreAD: One alcoholic helping another, right? JS: Absolutely. That shit is like some crazy healing magic… At some point when this guy was lamenting to me about how hard it all is, being in recovery and living with someone who’s suffering the torments of the damned from the very same stuff you’re recovering from […]
read moreAD: How is the dynamic between Cigano and Narcisa universally relatable? JS: At the risk of being accused of false modesty here, one of the few human character defects I’ve actually rarely fallen pray to so far (Laughs)… I should mention that there really are no new stories under the sun, just endless variations on […]
read moreAD: What were your reservations, if any, when writing Narcisa? Was there anything holding you back? JS: No, nothing. Absolutely nothing… It’s almost the opposite in fact. It’s as if I was being compelled to write this thing so strongly that once it started rolliing, there was no holding it back, there was just never […]
read moreWoke up after ten hours on the twelve-hour red-eye flight from Buenos Aires… Sometime around dawn in the dark, dreamlike hum of the airplane cabin I woke with a sudden unearthly chill, my mind filled with strange grey silent movie dreams of Narcisa… Dreams I can’t remember, don’t care to remember, but can’t forget… Looking […]
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