New York City

pen4hire on February 2nd, 2010

Travel Tuesday: NYC

Destination: Manhattan
Hotel: The Warwick
William Randolph Hearst, the Donald Trump of his day, made money in the early twentieth century as a media king and a property developer. He collected glamorous friends and stirred up equal parts of envy and admiration.

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pen4hire on January 18th, 2010

A Visit to Dorothy Parker’s New York and how she is connected to Martin Luther King.

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pen4hire on September 4th, 2009

Destination: American Road Trip

Book: American Fugue by Alexis Stamatis
I like books that are dense with ideas and expressed poetically. American Fugue by Greek author Alexis Stamatis fills the bill.  Here’s my review from Amazon:
American Fugue’s author Alexis Stamatis confounds  genres as he writes an innovative literary novel that combines with a thriller and a road [...]

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pen4hire on March 12th, 2009

WELCOME ALL MONICA BHIDE FANS! Thanks for visiting, and I hope you’ll considering coming back often, or subscribing with that big orange button to the right.
Our guest today is Monica Bhide, a fine writer and an expert on Indian food. Her latest  work is Modern Spice. Monica wrote a moving essay on her blog [...]

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