Madrid
In Other Hands: Revised Edition
About three years ago I published In Other Hands, a collection of nonfiction and composite creative stories, half of them about human trafficking and prostitution and the other half about poverty and homelessness. There is often a link between these areas but the readers generally expected a book about one general subject or the other.…
Read MoreImpressions of Madrid
Would I ever want to live in Madrid? I didn’t know. I hadn’t been there so before going prepared vigorously, studying maps and scouring cyberspace and printing out stacks of material that bulged from three folders. In Madrid I annotated my reference material and encouraged local citizens to also do so. I jumped into dozens…
Read MoreDining at the Hotel Ritz in Madrid
The double-deck tour bus with top open had just completed its modern Madrid route north of downtown on shady Paseo del Prado into the chic Salamanca neighborhood where renowned Real Madrid plays soccer in a massive stadium and the most exclusive shops are found, and then back down Calle Serrano past several elegant foreign embassies…
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