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Spring Cleaning and Queens Writers

by zora on March 27, 2012

I’m back in Astoria. Not for long, but for all of April at least. I have a massive stack of notebooks and photos (a digital stack, but a stack nonetheless) from my travels in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar–I’ll put those together into a few posts soon. Now I’m just enjoying a little minor [...]

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Winner, Winner, Enchilada Dinner!

by zora on April 5, 2011

Thanks a million for all the fun comments in the giveaway for copies of my new Moon New Mexico guidebook! This is real-time winner-picking: I’m going to random.org… (Sorry, no lovely assistant is awake yet this morning. Must rely on computers.) …and I’m asking the random-number generator to pick four numbers between 1 and 17: [...]

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Blood, Bones & Butter: Where were the editors?

by zora on March 31, 2011

As a former Prune employee, I’ve been looking forward to Gabrielle Hamilton’s Blood, Bones & Butter for an awfully long time. I ran out the first night the book was released, bought two copies and read it immediately. Even though I already knew lots of Hamilton’s backstory, it was compelling, and it was as well [...]

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Buy This Book: Day of Honey

by zora on March 30, 2011

For weeks, since I read Day of Honey cover to cover in a big, delicious rush, I’ve been mulling over a lengthy proper review in my head. Great books about the Middle East are so rare that they deserve splendid treatment. But I finally realized that’s not going to happen. I already lent my copy [...]

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