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on mother’s day

In Uncategorized by farzanadoctorMay 12, 2007Leave a Comment

Mother’s Day has been a non-event for me for the past 25 years. Not exactly a neutral day, it’s a day I barely acknowledge, and usually criticize as the Hallmark holiday it is …

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Book promo a-go-go

In Uncategorized by farzanadoctorMay 4, 2007Leave a Comment

Over the last couple of months, I have been experiencing the baby-step beginnings of the transition from “writer” to “author”. I have been writing dozens of e-mails every day, encouraging librarians …

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Binging on Atwood

In Uncategorized by farzanadoctorApril 25, 2007Leave a Comment

At my last writing group meeting, we talked about the authors who had significantly influenced us as writers. One woman talked about a poet who helped her make the connections between …

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Final edits

In Uncategorized by farzanadoctorApril 15, 2007Leave a Comment

It’s been a busy couple of weeks. I mailed out the Stealing Nasreen galley, marked up with anxious notes and strikethroughs and last-minute edits, to my publisher this past Monday. It’s been …

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why I write fiction

In Uncategorized by farzanadoctorApril 6, 2007Leave a Comment

My writing group did a free writing exercise on why we write this week. I like to express myself politically, socially, professionally. But why I write fiction is a little harder …

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Shouting out against evil

In Uncategorized by farzanadoctorMarch 28, 2007Leave a Comment

Did you hear about Toyin Agbetu’s act of heroism? He was the man who disrupted the bicentenary service marking the 1807 act to abolish the slave trade yesterday at Westminster …

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An Ode to “HP”

In Uncategorized by farzanadoctorMarch 19, 2007Leave a Comment

Alright, well, I might reveal myself to be the geek I am this week. And it is all because of my seven-year-old nephew’s love for Harry Potter, or “HP” as …

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Browngirlworld

In Uncategorized by farzanadoctorMarch 10, 2007Leave a Comment

Last night, I went to Browngirlworld 7, a fabulous evening to celebrate IWD. The evening’s headliner, L.A.-based theatre/hiphop/spoken word artist D’Lo (http://chavez.ucla.edu/DLo/bio.htm)  showed an incredible range of talent playing her …

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Saturday with the in-laws and The Polished Hoe

In Uncategorized by farzanadoctorMarch 3, 20071 Comment

My girlfriend, her parents, and I have started a tradition of going to Obsidian Theatre (www.obsidian-theatre.com) plays together. After an overstimulating lunch at Richtree (oh, so many choices and the …

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Code White

In Uncategorized by farzanadoctorFebruary 24, 20071 Comment

This past week I went to “Get Your Lit Out – Heartbreaker”, a night of post-Valentine’s readings by a variety of gifted queer writers: Marusya Bociurkiw, Rose Cullis, Tara-Michelle Ziniuk, Julia …

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