"You can't get romantic on a subway line!" ([info]rakehell) wrote,
@ 2006-03-03 03:14:00
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I was late to Kiran’s reading and book signing at Elliot Bay Books, so I unfortunately missed hearing her read and only caught the tail end of her book tour partner Alice Greenway’s reading. Kiran is a very sweet person and it was great to see her again.

After the book signing I went with her, Alice, and a friend of Alice's to The Pink Door for dinner. Kiran and I exchanged news of our New York friends and of our travels of the last five years. I am pleased to learn that a colorful friend of ours has been made into a character in her new novel, The Inheritance of Loss. It's her second novel, and it has been getting some very good reviews. I am much looking forward to reading it. It was also great to meet Alice Greenway, whom I gather is an American expat residing in Scotland. Alice’s new book is White Ghost Girls.




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[info]justdandy
2006-03-03 01:33 pm UTC (link)
Hey, my writing teacher was just talking about Alice Greenway! It was in reference to the fact that no authors are coming to New Orleans to do readings anymore, and how they really ought to. Because we need good fiction just as much as we need FEMA tarps and Red Cross checks.

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[info]rakehell
2006-03-05 12:14 am UTC (link)
I don't recall her mentioning New Orleans as a stop on their tour. Are you back down there now?

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[info]demondoll2001
2006-03-03 09:30 pm UTC (link)
Are you saying that you know Kiran Desai? How come you never mentioned that to me? Huh? huh?

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[info]rakehell
2006-03-05 12:11 am UTC (link)
Just never came up I guess.

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[info]demondoll2001
2006-03-05 07:55 pm UTC (link)
How long have you known her? How did you meet her?

Sorry, I'm always very curious about the lives of other writers.

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[info]rakehell
2006-03-05 09:47 pm UTC (link)
We lived in the same dorm in New York (that was about the mid-'90s). Then we moved out at the same time and happenned to move to buildings next door to one another.

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[info]naked_kiss
2006-03-05 03:27 am UTC (link)
I didn't realize you knew her. So I got your voicemail a bit too late...but it sounds like you had a blast.

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