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The sea and a bridge. When I began, I lived on the seventh floor of a building that faced the Aegean. I sat on a little chair staring at the water, the sky, the light and endless blue that Greece is so famous for. The final pieces were written right next to the Queensboro Bridge in Manahattan. A very different scene from Greece, but the noise, energy, and force that New York City fuels you with, is priceless.
Toni Morrison, first and foremost. As an undergrad, I remember reading a quote from her, "if you can't find the book you want to read, write it." So I did.
I have two. The first is when the main character is a child, about to be torn from her home in the Soviet Union. While raking leaves for burning with her grandfather in her summer home, she begins to run around the pile and cry, staring at the fire. The second is a humorous chapter about her very bad choice of relationship later in life, that sends her crashing into a bottomless pit.
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Oh, wow, Toni Morrison. She would teach me so much. Probably more than I'd be able to learn.
Well, Athens is a city with a million stories a minute. Especially the past few years where things have turned towards the worst. It's fertile ground for any writer.
No. I didn't want any heavy symbolism, they're all named rather randomly, but I tried to keep the names consistent with the national background of each character.
I don't have a physical space that's my favorite, it's more like a mental space, a place I have to be, a mood I have to transform myself into, to be able to create.
Seeing it standing on the bookshelf at Barnes and Noble, Union Square, next to Milan Kundera.
Probably when I was in middle school. I won the short story contest in 8th grade and knew I wanted to be a writer ever since.
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