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 Diana Abu-Jaber's Profile |
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An All-American Writer (who also happens to be Arab, Irish, Muslim, Catholic....) |
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| Age: | 99 years old |
| Sex: | Female |
| Location: | MIAMI, Florida |
| Country: |  United States |
| Zodiac: |  Scorpio (Oct 23 - Nov 21) |
| Last Login: | Oct 9, 2008 (455 days back) |
| I am Here For Friends and Networking. | |
About Me |
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| My newest novel, Origin , is out in hard cover and comes out in PAPERBACK this May. It's completely different from my earlier books! You can view this little segment about my writing process: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ie5NgdUyKXI Or check out my conversation about writing, life, books and all of that good stuff with Mitchell Kaplan, the genius-owner of Miami's Books & Books.
Diana Abu-Jaber and Mitch Kaplan Add to My Profile | More Videos It's a whole new genre -- a literary thriller-- a whole new approach, full of suspense and tension, but it's also a departure from writing about my cultural background, which is huge for me. (And you can read more about my books on my website www.dianaabujaber.comSo, okay, sure, everyone has to start somewhere, so why not start with language, culture, race, religion, right? But I don't know-- it just got old. After years of my father telling me that I was Arab, and then years of everyone else telling me that I didn't "look Arab" at all, I just got kind of sick of the whole push and pull of identity, of trying to figure out what sort of look or way of seeing or being or thinking I was supposed to fit into.So now I'm mostly interested in not-fitting, not even in-between, just not-being this way or that, of being a new and uncomfortable, uncomforting thing. And then writing about it. |
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My Interests |
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| Food, Film, Languages, Literature-- all sorts of genres, too, like science fiction, fantasy, horror, humor-- Theater, Poetry, Visual Arts, Politics, Social Activism, Walking, Talking, Dancing, Music, Napping, Dogs | |
I'd like to meet:Readers, writers, editors, publishers, publicists, all artists and musicians and filmmakers, rabid enthusiasts, professors and philosophers, storytellers, cooks and big eaters, and...oh, I guess, come to think of it...Everybody! |
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Music:Simon Shaheen, Moby, Roxy Music, Eno, Dido, Shakira, Umm Kulthum, Oasis, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sahara Electric, David Bowie, Cocteau Twins, Annie Lennox, Dead Can Dance, Ian Dury, Diamanda Galas, Morrissey, Throwing Muses, Gwen Stefani, Otis Taylor, Joss Stone, Coltrane, The Police, Linkin Park, Jonathan Richman; Norah Jones; Sade; Coldplay; Dido; Pearl Jam; k.d. lang; Joy Division; Talking Heads; Depeche Mode; Captain Beefheart; George Gershwin; English Beat; Fairuz; Mazzy Star; Crowded House; Cheb Khaled |
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Movies:Persona; Badlands; The Four Hundred Blows; Picnic At Hanging Rock; Sami and Rosie Get Laid; Trust; Annie Hall; Being John Malkovich; Erotica; Eraserhead; Blue; The Piano; Ron Burgundy; My Own Private Idaho; The Crying Game; Mona Lisa; Diva; The Night Porter; Prospero's Books; Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast; Lawrence of Arabia; 8 1/2; The Stationmaster's Wife; Wings of Desire; The Opposite of Sex; Black Orpheus; The Pillow Book; Rashoman; Breathless; Don't Look Now; The Conformist; A History of Violence; Wild Strawberries; Shakespeare In Love; Last Tango In Paris; Bladerunner |
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Television:The Agency; The Office; Sex and the City; What Not To Wear; Nip/Tuck; STTNG; Seinfeld; 30-Rock; Celebrity Fit Club; Twin Peaks |
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Books:Okay, so I've written some books-- Origin; The Language of Baklava; Crescent; and Arabian Jazz. I read constantly and have endless favorites, like.... The English Patient; Gilead; The Master; Franny and Zooey; Dubliners; To the Lighthouse; Plainsong; Beloved; Joe Sacco's graphic novels; My Antonia; Mating; Independence Day; How to Cook a Wolf; Portnoy's Complaint; Catch 22; Tender At the Bone; A Farewell To Arms; Them; Birds of America; Round Rock; Dreams of Trespass; Loving Che; Breath, Eyes, Memory; The Incredible Lightness of Being; Lolita; Belle Canto; Annie John; Middlesex; Arabesques; The Third Body; I Saw the Sky Catch Fire; The God of Small Things; One Hundred Years of Solitude; The Mill On the Floss; Midnight's Children; The Ogre; Perfume; History; The Stream of Life; Love Medicine; Woman Warrior; Girl's Guide To Hunting and Fishing; My Year of Meats |
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Heroes:Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, Bill Clinton, Noam Chomsky, Derrida, Robbe-Grillet, Oprah, Hillary Clinton, Laurie David, Hanif Kureishi, Atom Egoyan, Ralph Nader, Michael Moore, Neruda, Picasso, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jon Stewart, Edward Said, Pablo Neruda, Borges |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | Married |
| Hometown: | Syracuse |
| Occupation: | Writer |
My Pictures |
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My Blog |
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Blood and Brains: Stylish Murder Mysteries |
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| My piece on writing and reading literary thrillers is broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered tonight!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9089069
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Please tune in if you have a chanc... Posted by Diana Abu-Jaber on Wed, 28 May 2008 03:02:00 PST |
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Blue jays and Spring Book Tour! |
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| It's deep spring in South Florida. The birds are in a general agitation all over the neighborhood and the blue jays are nesting. They get indignant: I just watched them harrassing a squirrel as i... Posted by Diana Abu-Jaber on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:27:00 PST |
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On the road with Hillary and Barack |
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| Okay, well maybe we're not EXACTLY traveling together, but we're all on the road at the same time, and I'm spending a lot of time in hotel rooms staring at them on the TV. How do these politicians do ... Posted by Diana Abu-Jaber on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:44:00 PST |
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Best-seller at home! |
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| http://www.poststar.com/articles/2008/04/20/ae/tod...
Not the New York Times, not even my latest book, but I'm thrilled to have a best-seller up in my old stompin grounds-- Upstate New York!
ww... Posted by Diana Abu-Jaber on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:59:00 PST |
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North Country Reads Extravaganza! |
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| I just got back from a week in Watertown, NY and points North, and what an week it was. I worked with a group of high-powered volunteer dynamos and their SUVs, to speak to public schools and libraries... Posted by Diana Abu-Jaber on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:51:00 PST |
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Risks, Plans, A New Year |
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| Miami, our neighbor's enormous inflatable Santa is lying in a prune-faced puddle in the yard. Up and down the block, dried out Christmas trees glitter in the garbage. And the wreathe on our front door... Posted by Diana Abu-Jaber on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:47:00 PST |
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Happy Forever For Now |
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| Yup, that's how it goes, crazy ol writing life. I'm tickled pink: a reader just sent word that ORIGIN was mentioned as a Favorite Mystery Book of 2007 in the LA Times. Last week it made the top 100 Bo... Posted by Diana Abu-Jaber on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 05:16:00 PST |
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After Being Reviewed |
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| Many thanks to the readers who wrote me yesterday to say that they loved Origin! Among the emails, I received a question from one of my writing students. She asked:
"I suppose it's inevitable that ev... Posted by Diana Abu-Jaber on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:14:00 PST |
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Writing and Money |
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| I've fallen off the blog wagon recently, but I like to always check in on my birthday-- if only to try and keep myself honest.
My blogging has dwindled a bit due to a sudden increase in, well, work. T... Posted by Diana Abu-Jaber on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:59:00 PST |
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Portland: A Love Song |
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You walk down the streets of this city, the city you realize, you have fallen in love with, as hard and giddy as falling for any lover. Is that possible? You touch a concrete wall. In th... Posted by Diana Abu-Jaber on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:12:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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Scott, Books & Books, National Public Radio, Powells Books, Syracuse New Times, THE COWBELL GUY, Queen Noor, OPRAH -OBFC-, Angela Mackintosh, Stop The War, Harlan Coben, Oum Kalthoum, Miami Bellydance Meetup, Jennifer Weiner, City Lights, AfroBella, Joshua Braff, Tim Dorsey, Jim Cramer, BOLLYWOOD CLASSICS, Primates Incorporated, Florida Residents, Lumonics Light Museum, Noam, Steve Zissou, Emerge Miami, Um Kalthoum, Ralph Nader, Karl Childers, Haruki, Kan Zaman, Key West, Poet Pablo Neruda - Tribute Page, baklava, Bryan Ferry's 80s hits, Hillary Clinton, CJ West, HH Self ~ Writer, Tarik & Julia Banzi: Al-Andalus Ensemble, joseph, The Elite, DIANE CHAMBERLAIN, AUTHOR, Leslie Stroz, REALLYGOODMAGAZINE, D. H. Dublin, a.k.a. Jon McGoran, ☭SICKLE CELL☭ - ☠You Have No Idea!☠, SCIBA, Brenna, Baugalin, JACK, (get out the vote) Worldwide Progressive Movement, Mary, Schwartz Bookshop, Annette Blair, Baboon Liberation Army, IOTA Publishing, Discrete Encounter, Antonio, Ruba, Hampton Roads, Mikey McKernan, Matt Pierce, J*Z (As seen on MTV), Brooklyn College Library, BOOK_HUNTERS - Where Readers Hunt New Authors., Nathan Hondros, KAMEL ABDOUS, Christine, Mortified, Annie Wells, Uncle Phil, Mystery Sci-fi author Rai Aren, Tim, Tylar Drake~Writer, Dave Diotalevi, Kawehi, Denise Dee, Henry Bateman, Socialist Standard, Christian Doig
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