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...Exhausted: An A-Z for the Weary by Anna Katharina Schaffner (Profile) Burnout is a defining feature of our post-pandemic world — but why are we all so exhausted?...
...She co-founded the literary magazine Libre, where she worked with Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes and went on to produce 22 films....
...I wish I could write with the language of García Márquez or Nabokov but to say I wish it is to wish not to be me. What are you most proud of writing? I would say my first book....
...Gabriel García Márquez or Günter Grass. What are you scared of? Not that much, which sort of shows the size of my ego....
...García Márquez or Borges or Dostoevsky – and the most charming or intellectual woman in the world. What are you scared of? Organised cruelty and organised misunderstanding....
...disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones . . . why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid . . . ” Nothing else you read this summer will come close to Gabriel García Márquez...
...Isak Dinesen, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel García-Márquez, Roald Dahl and Mikhail Bulgakov. What is your daily writing routine?...
...Anna Karina – in her youth when she was in the Godard movies. How do you relax? I dance. I do a classical ballet class and I like to dance at parties....
...Yet from the start, Macondo – named after the doomed village in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude – had been a “nightmare”, in the words of one BP engineer working on it....
...Gabriel García Márquez. How do you relax? I meet friends. I like to be with people all the time. What are you scared of? Losing my skill as a writer. I feel like I could cope with death....
...But if Carmen is box-office gold, Love and Other Demons, based on a novella by Gabriel García Márquez, sounds tougher to sell....
...Mertin remembers how publishers always used to demand the Brazilian equivalent of Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude....
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