Here are excerpts from a review of The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History (Rose Metal Press 2023), a debut novel by Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones. The reviewer, Charles Rammelkamp, is Prose Editor for BrickHouse Books in Baltimore and Reviews Editor for The Adirondack Review, and author of Mortal Coil and A Magician Among the Spirits. [See full…
Poets & Writers interviews Puerto Rican writer Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones, author of the debut novel The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History. [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention. Also see previous post New: The Hurricane Book.] Here are excerpts: This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones, whose debut, The Hurricane Book:…
she gave my tape to mr. ailes office here i am. you know what i tell people? you never know what your job is going to come from. teach people with respect and the way you would want to be treated. that s how i got in here. they hire you here to do the weather. they needed a daytime weather person here so i went back to school. you went back to weather school? now you are a meteorologist here at fox news? all day wednesday is going to be@k mess. you write children s books the why do you do that. i do that to teach kids about weather. it s important to teach kids at a young age why things happen in the atmosphere. weather can be scary and if can you sit down with your kids and talk about why weather happens with parents, teachers, it takes the scare out of weather. i have three books thought. third one comes out in july it s a hurricane book. it talks about why things happen and how you can prepare in advance. janice dean, everybody, did you know that? thank you. ple
she gave my tape to mr. ailes office here i am. you know what i tell people? you never know what your job is going to come from. teach people with respect and the way you would want to be treated. that s how i got in here. they hire you here to do the weather. they needed a daytime weather person here so i went back to school. you went back to weather school? now you are a meteorologist here at fox news? all day wednesday is going to be@k mess. you write children s books the why do you do that. i do that to teach kids about weather. it s important to teach kids at a young age why things happen in the atmosphere. weather can be scary and if can you sit down with your kids and talk about why weather happens with parents, teachers, it takes the scare out of weather. i have three books thought. third one comes out in july it s a hurricane book. it talks about why things happen and how you can prepare in advance. janice dean, everybody did you know that? thank you. plen