All Blog Posts Tagged 'andrew' (3)

A World of His Own is an enjoyable historical novel set in New Orleans in the early 1800′s. The novel spans a few years and centers around the life of Andre Raphael de Javon, an ambitious and handsome Frenchman who comes to America in order to become one of the richest plantation owners in Louisiana.

The story begins when he’s just arrived by ship to New Orleans in the company of his friend Charles, who’s spent the last six years studying in Europe. Charles comes…

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I asked the authors who hang out at Classics Used and Rare Books to guest blog about their topics of interest.  Here's Andrew Lubin on how 9/11 drove him to write.

 

9/11 & My Family: Andrew Lubin

by Classics author, and guest blogger, Andrew Lubin

 

Like everyone else in the New York, New Jersey area, I remember the startling clarity of the day. Picture-perfect blue skies when I left…

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“It’s a Tuesday morning in February, and I get up as usual, and I stumble into the bathroom to take a shower in the dark. Which is my school-day method because it’s sort of like an extra ten minutes of sleep.

It’s after the shower. That’s when it happens.

It’s when I turn on the bathroom light and wipe the fog off the mirror to comb my hair. It’s what I see in the mirror. It’s what I don’t see.

I look a second time, and then rub at the mirror again.

I’m not… Continue