Essays

• How I Got Here

  Should all biographies be linear? Why, I wonder? Who started that? Was it handed down to us ex cathedra? By Iron Law? Did it start with the Romans? Jewish scholars? The Chinese? The Greeks?...

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• Kent's Essay on Translation

  I don't remember now exactly when I first met Nordine Haddad, my French translator, and dear friend. But I do know it was on the telephone after he began translating my novel Dia De Los Muertos. I got a call from Paris one afternoon, at my place in California. I knew it must be very late -- in fact morning...

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• Kent's Forward for Dia De Los Muertos

  Dear Reader,

  It's unlikely we'll ever meet; unfortunately, that's the way it is between the novelist and his readers.

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