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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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Hard
Impact
Particular
Discern
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At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.
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Appreciate
Levels
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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Language
States
Writing
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I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
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Long
Pieces
Three
Interview
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Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
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Changed
Exaggeration
Publication
Life My Life New
New Yorker
Yorker
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It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.
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Art
Ideas
People
Art People True
Opposed
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I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.
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Cities
Firsts
Peru
Radio
Visiting
Prisons
Published
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Ask any human being alive if they're the same person they were seven years ago and they're going to tell you they aren't.
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Alive
Seven
Years
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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Latin
Latin America
Thinking
Writing
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What I'm most interested in is not necessarily the wound, but the scar. Not how someone is wounded, but what the scar does later.
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Doe
Scar
Wounded
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Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book.
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Beautiful
Book
Pages
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I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.
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Affair
Love Affair
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Writing an op-ed feels like I'm taking the SAT. It's so hard. It feels like homework. And if it feels like homework, it just doesn't get done.
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Done
Homework
Writing
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For fiction, Im not particularly nationalistic. Im not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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Fiction
Latin
People
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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Chavez
Good Work
Latin
Latin American
Letters
Nationalistic
Work Good People
Particularly
Hugo
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Generally, I find that when you're writing and having fun with the writing, that energy and dynamism is going to come out in the text one way or another.
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Fun
Way
Writing
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasnt made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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Boys
Cups
Different
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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Peru
World Cup
Cup
Diego
Sadly
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I write 1,000 words a day first thing in the morning but I cannot write 240 characters to describe a piece that I spent six weeks working on with a producer.
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Morning
Character
Writing
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I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.
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Discipline
Mapping
Sentences
Structure
Thinking
Writing
Impose
Linguistic
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A novel is like an animal you have to hunt down and kill. If you let it sit for two days, it's got a two-day head start. So, if I just look at it every day, I'm so much better off.
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Animal
Looks
Two
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When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.
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Language
School
Sophisticated
Writing
Disposal
Domestic
Literary
Spanish
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I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.
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Jesus
Color
Intricate
Streets
Two
Bright
Buildings
Colonial
Maria
Spanish
Wooden
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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
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Depends
Emigration
Factors
Land
Site
Support
Arrival
Lands
Network
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I'm a believer in the benefits of translation. It's a necessity and a privilege - it would be awful to be limited to reading authors who's work was composed in the languages I happen to have learned.
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Benefits
Reading
Would Be
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The bond between parent and child is chemical, fierce, and inexplicable, even if that parent is a sworn killer. This connection cannot be measured; it at once more subtle and more powerful than science.
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Children
Parent
Powerful
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I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
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Band
Names
Sucker
Underdog
Named
Los
Underdogs
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I guess in my own life I don't really think much about manliness too much. I feel like a lot of men that I know don't sit around thinking, "How am I supposed to be a man?" I don't think that I have to prove anything.
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Men
Thinking
Too Much
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I have a love/hate relationship with the internet. It's obviously the central tool of how I work, and how I keep in touch with all the writers and then producers that I'm collaborating with. Skype saves my life, you know.
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Hate
Skype
Tools
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Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. Thats half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.
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Country
Land
People
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Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.
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Abandon
Peru
Population
Uncertainty
Emigrate
Foreign Land
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I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched. If I see them reading X Latin American Writer Who Sucks, I'm not psyched. But in terms of news, I do think that's important.
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Book
Latin
Reading
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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
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Blogs
Ephemeral
Paper
Papers
Peru
Thinking
Writing
Column
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Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.
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Bike
Physics
Redesign
Riding
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My first and last love will always be fiction. It's the first thing I do in the morning and the last thing I do at night. I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.
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Morning
Fall
Night
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I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. Im thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.
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Country
Latin
Thinking
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I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. I'm thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.
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Fortunate
Including
Latin
Latin American
Well Known
American Writers
Impacted
Maria
Viewed
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When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.
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Clash
Background
Distracting
Instrumental
Voices
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Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be able to reach people who might not ever pick up one of my books, either because they can't afford it (as is often the case in Latin America), or because they just don't have the habit of reading novels.
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Book
Latin
Reading
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There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can delight in the details, the humor, the particularities of speech, of dialects. Something is always lost in translation; we know instinctively that this is the case. A Radio Ambulante story looks at Latin America from the inside.
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America
Latin
Radio
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Meaning can be usually be approximated, but often by sacrificing style. When I review my translations into Spanish, that's what I'm most concerned with, reading the sentences aloud in Spanish to make sure they sound the way I want them to. To be honest, I much prefer being translated into Greek or Japanese; in those cases, you have no way of being involved, and no pressure.
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Greek
Reading
Sacrifice
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A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang, Diego Osorno, Cristóbal Peña, Gabriela Wiener, Leila Guerriero, Cristian Alarcón, among others. These are writers doing important, groundbreaking work. So the talent is there, as is the habit of radio listenership, and what we propose to do is unite the two. We want to have these immensely gifted journalists - men and women who've already revitalized the long-form narrative - we want them to tell their stories in sound.
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Men
Latin
Two
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Radio, or at least the kind of radio we're proposing to do, can cut through that. It can reach people who would otherwise never hear your work, and of course I find that very notion inspiring. Radio stories are powerful because the human voice is powerful. It has been and will continue to be the most basic element of storytelling. As a novelist (and I should note that working my novel is the first thing I do in the morning and the very last thing I do before I sleep), shifting into this new medium is entirely logical. It's still narrative, only with different tools.
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Morning
Powerful
Sleep
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