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Writing Memoir and Fiction

Recently, I have been thinking a lot about the demands of writing memoir versus writing fiction, because as you see from my website I do both. Goodreads has a number of authors' discussion groups on this and I have been contributing to them here and there.

Ultimately, my view is that memoir blends into fiction. There is no such thing as pure objectivity. What the author of memoir has to do though - as does the author of fiction - is make sure his or her facts are…

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Added by Geza Tatrallyay on January 3, 2015 at 11:00am — No Comments

The Soviet Bomb and Twisted Reasons

I first conceived of, and started writing, TWISTED REASONS, when I was living in Vienna and traveling throughout the former Soviet Union. I had read a great little book called THE ATOMIC BAZAAR, by William Langewiesche, that talked about the ease which with terrorists could get their hands on nuclear material from one of the secret cities where Stalin developed the atomic bomb. Delving further into research on the Soviet bomb, I learned about the many…

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Added by Geza Tatrallyay on December 15, 2014 at 11:00am — No Comments

Ukraine 2014 and For the Children

With the crossing of 32 Russian tanks and 30 armored vehicles into Ukraine a few days ago and the continuing influx of heavy arms and military personnel, Vladimir Putin has openly invaded yet another sovereign country. This, after many months of instigating instability, first in Crimea―which he then annexed―and then in the Eastern Ukrainian ‘oblasts’ of Donetsk and Lukhansk, resulting in the loss of more than 4000 lives since April, and the creation…

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Added by Geza Tatrallyay on November 20, 2014 at 2:04am — No Comments