Author
About *Process**Process* gets its name from Franz Kafka’s novel Der Prozeß. In tribute to the Czech Jew who died at 40, I named the site for his main character Joseph K, who in Der Prozeß, enters a labrynth of suspicion and intrigue on his 30th birthday. This site was born on my 30th birthday. It will last ten years and I’ll retire it when I’m... [Read more from this post]
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Muses
Michael Ondaajte – The MasterMichael Ondaajte was working on a film in Tunisia, alongside producer Saul Zaentz. The script called for a widened section of asphalt road, which the locals suggested they endow with a name. Recalling that once-in-a-lifetime and magnanimous offer, the Sri Lankan born Canadian author remembers, I wanted the Ondaatje Road: the road that leads nowhere. Telling... [Read more from this post]
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Commentary
The Sheltering Sky by Paul BowlesWhen Paul Bowles and his wife moved to Tangiers, the blue-eyed and tranquil city on the Mediterranean coast of then French-ruled Morocco, they were both in their 30s. Not long after they moved, they decided to stay, never to return to New York. Two years later, Paul Bowles issued what would become his magnum opus, a work reminiscent of the choices he... [Read more from this post]
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Books
Works in ProcessMy first novel is an historical epic about a research scientist who comes face to face with the victim of his atomic creation. THE GEISHA’S DAUGHTER (unpublished MS) is set in the calendar year following World War II. A story about suffering, I traveled to research the novel in Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Los Alamos and Southern France–all place... [Read more from this post]
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