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Naseem Rakha
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November 19, 1959
in Chicago, The United States
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Kent Haruf, Truman Capote, Wendell Berry, Jane Smiley
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Sharon Ford has posted an interview with Naseem about her process for writing the best selling novel: The Crying Tree.
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FORD: When you decided to write a novel, did you find your background in journalism helpful, or was the transition to fiction difficult?
RAKHA: First off, I was not a print journalist – I was in broadcast, and more specifically, I was a broadcast journalist for public rad... read more »
Exerpt:
FORD: When you decided to write a novel, did you find your background in journalism helpful, or was the transition to fiction difficult?
RAKHA: First off, I was not a print journalist – I was in broadcast, and more specifically, I was a broadcast journalist for public rad... read more »
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The Crying Tree
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My Year with Harry Potter (Select)
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First Appeared in Shelf Awareness, 7/21/2011
THE BIRTH OF A BOOK (Literature & Fiction)
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The Crying Tree's debut days
Dancing in Antwerp (Health, Mind & Body)
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updated Apr 29, 2009 06:44am
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Essay about a YouTube film of people dancing to The Sound of Music in a railway station in Antwerp
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“It had been so beautiful. Life had been so simple and so terribly beautiful.”
― Naseem Rakha, The Crying Tree
― Naseem Rakha, The Crying Tree
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Thanks for accepting me the other day. I just finished your book, its superb! I look forward to more :)
