Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A. Yes, in certain ways. There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie...
Q. In your recent book Palm Latitudes, you portray a world of poor Latin women. Why did you choose to write about them?
A. I lived in the barrio for ten years. I spoke the language. The Los Angeles novel, in a purely abstract sense, would not be about Anglo people. Palm Latitudes is a book that wrote itself out of the aesthetics of the region. My feeling when I came to the...
Q. You talk about giving your women characters a mythology of their own. What is yours?
A. One of my characters says, "To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds." A garden requires discipline to tend it. It needs flexibility, stamina. I think I was also talking about the garden as being a metaphor for...