Book Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
“In the second week of December, 1992, almost as soon as the rain let up, we went as a family to scatter your ashes, Paula, following the instructions you had left in a letter written long before you fell ill.” Perhaps the most interesting part of The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende is actually [...]
The Stage - Newsblog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The theatre, like life itself, is full of coincidences and chance meetings. Who could have planned it, for instance, that last week Zorro — based on Isabel Allende’s 2005 novel, and boasting her name above the title as one of the co-producers - should open the very night before Allende was also personally name-checked in The Female of the Species, and the audience even given a lesson in how to pronounce...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Inspired by Isabel Allende’s 2005 bestseller Zorro: A Novel and with music by The Gipsy Kings, Zorro tells how the young Diego de la Vega (Matt Rawle) becomes the swashbuckling hero. Roll your mouse over the left and right-hand sides of the image and then click to view more pictures. Lesli Margherita (Inez, centre) leads gypsies and women of the pueblo in dance. Photo by Alastair Muir. 1 of 2 Read...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
SUCCESSFUL films don’t necessarily make successful stage musicals – we saw that recently with Gone with the Wind – so does Zorro , the West End’s latest offering, have what it takes to succeed? I think it does. Inspired by Isabel Allende’s 2005 bestseller Zorro: A Novel and with music by The Gypsy Kings, Zorro tells how the young Diego de la Vega (Matt Rawle) becomes the swashbuckling hero. The son...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Photo: Getty Images Harvey Weinstein , to wife Georgina Chapman, in front of Spice Market: "I want Asian food. Didn't hear me? Asian." "Page Six" accuses Paris Hilton of being a liar. Novelist Isabel Allende says she was a terrible journalist because she lied all the time. Andres Serrano , whose latest controversial exhibit contains a lot of real fecal matter, claims he's "got the best shit in town."...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
ISABEL Allende could have been another Jayson Blair had she remained in journalism. "I was lousy. I lied all the time; I invented things," the award-winning novelist of "The House of the Spirits" told London's Observer. "I would direct questions...
Book Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
On my post of Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende, Katrina commented that the book could have been a bit shorter and in retrospect I do agree. When reading the collection of critical essays on the short story someone – maybe Chekov maybe Hart – said something along the lines that it was more or [...]
Soulfull Vibes (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Isabel Allende writes novels about self-reliant women who thrive in the midst of political turmoil. In her passionate TEDTalk, Allende praises women whose grit and selflessness transform the meaning... Visit Soulfull Vibes for more information
TED Blog (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Isabel Allende writes novels about self-reliant women who thrive in the midst of political turmoil. In her passionate TEDTalk, Allende praises women whose grit and selflessness transform the meaning of modern feminism -- mentioning, in particular, three women of rare...
Book Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
So I’ve done it again: I have a growing stack of books I keep intended to write up but forget so the stack keeps getting larger. Even with the amount of studying and preparation I’ve been doing for my classes, I have still been reading fairly steadily. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende is my second [...]
Book Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
I had heard a lot of good things about Allende and particularly about Inés of My Soul, and the book certainly did not live up to its reputation. It’s a work of historical fiction representing Inés Suarez who helped the Spanish conquistadors colonize Chile. Allende offers an interesting perspective trying not to over romanticize the [...]
Fountain pens and handmade paper (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Chilean writer in the magic realist tradition who is considered one of the first successful woman novelists in Latin America. Isabel Allende was born in Lima, Peru in 1942, the daughter of a Chilean diplomat. After her parents’ divorce, she spent her childhood in her maternal grandparents’ household, being especially close to her grandmother, a [...]
World Hum (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
This year’s Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference takes place August 14-17 in Corte Madera, California. I’ll be on the faculty, along with many writers and editors I admire : Simon Winchester, Tim Cahill, Isabel Allende, John Flinn, Tom Swick and (conference chair) Don George, just to name a few. If you’re interested in studying travel writing or photography and meeting editors and...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Osmond Molarsky has been writing all his life. He's written ad copy, radio documentaries, U.S. Navy training films and a series of children's books. But it wasn't until last year that the 98-year-old Mill Valley resident wrote his first novel, a contemporary...
Cosmetic Makeovers (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
Isabel Allende, age 65, is one of the world's most amazing writers. She has sold over 50 million books and her most famous novel is probably The House of the Spirits. She writes in a magical realism style, her work is often compared to Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In a recent interview, Isabel Allende says she first had some cosmetic surgery six years ago. She says she leads a very public life and "I saw...
