Kate Braverman
Kate Braverman
Kate Bravermanis an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She was raised in Los Angeles, which is the focus for much of her writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
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Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.
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There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.
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I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous work to deal with the most toxic internal elements... I feel like Madame Curie at my computer. I feel like I should be hemorrhaging from my eyes and ears.
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The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.
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If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
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I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.
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As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
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I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It's about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had.