http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com A writer neither here nor there Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:04:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Who are you? I don't know. [Don't say that, say something humble and brave, about wandering and not being lost and how I still haven't found what I'm looking for. Quote a poet. Or a philosopher. Do not quote Star Trek. Please.] I know who I am but I'm not going to tell ... http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/five-minute-interview-kuzhali-manickavel.html Who are you? A mass of fearons or is that leaptons trying to make sense of the world. No seriously I am just trying to make sense of the conflict that is life. We are given desires and dreams and then often the inability to make them real cos life comes ... http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/five-minute-interview-jai-clare.html Who are you? It's only when I crossed 40 that I realized I should do the thing I love the most, to write. So you could say it's only since the last few years that I have no hesitation in calling myself a writer. What do you write? At the moment equal doses ... http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/five-minute-interview-ramesh-avadhani.html I have an op-ed piece running in today's International Herald Tribune, which is online here: Speed up or get out of the way. http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/in-praise-of-speed.html On Monday, the Cambridge Union Society debated “This House would return the Parthenon Marbles to the New Acropolis Museum in Athens.” Sponsoring the debate was easyCruise. The travel company offers a Classical Greece cruise that includes a visit to the Acropolis, the tourist attraction bereft of most of ... http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/keep-your-guilty-secret.html I recently met someone from the country. This person had always lived in the country. Real country. Cows, vegetable gardens, tree chopping, no running water. We began talking about country life versus city life, as you do. He had not been in the city for more than a few days and already ... http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/happiness-and-the-city.html My story A Silly Little Thing is now archived over on the Pequin.org site. Iris fell in love with George because he didn’t let cybersex interfere with his punctuation or grammar. He always typed with two hands and kept every finger poised over the keyboard as he’d learned in the touch-typing ... http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/a-silly-little-thing-at-pequin.html Who are you? If I could work that out, I wouldn't write at all. I'm a hybrid in that I've lived for years in several different countries, including five years in Spain and more than eight years in Argentina. In a few days I return to a London ... http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/five-minute-interview-peter-robertson.html In his Travels in England Nikos Kazantzakis talks about "rhythm." "Τι είναι λοιπόν ρυθμός; Μια κεντρική κίνηση όλο αρμονία, που κυβερνάει το στοχασμό και την πράξη μας." "What is rhythm, then? A single central movement, all harmony, that governs our goals and actions." My first response to this is that Kazantzakis's "rhythm" is ... http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/on-rhythm-and-authenticity.html Love - romantic, passionate, erotic love - is often portrayed, understood, or lived as a type of madness. Scientists reveal chemical imbalances, psychologists classify it with various disorders, but while reading an old interview with Martha Nussbaum called "The Ethics of Literature" (sorry, no reference, it just exists as a ... http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/rational-love-not-mad-at-all.html