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GREECE IS THE LANDSCAPE OF MY WRITING
There are so many layers of Greece. Pre-historic Cycladic Greece with its idols so reminiscent of the Easter Islands. And there is Minoan and Mycenaean Greece at the moment when the bards began their stories. Classical Greece, called by admirers … Continue reading
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Why Fiction?
Why turn experience into fiction? Why not write a “true” account of material? [If truth can ever be achieved. Consider the varying testimony of witnesses to a crime. Consider varying interpretations of historic events.] There is a place for non-fiction: … Continue reading
And then the really bad news.
The BBC reports that the unemployment rate in Greece is 26.8%. Greece has overtaken Spain as the European country with the most unemployment. Not only that. This is the highest unemployment rate EVER recorded in the European Union. And this … Continue reading
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The Greek Economy in the New Year
The good news is that the S&P has raised Greece’s credit rating from “Selective Default” to “B-minus.” The bad news is that unemployment in Greece is the highest in Europe, and that’s saying something. The problem. Well, what does Greece … Continue reading
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Excerpt from Time Running Out
Here is “Before Time,” the Preface to Time Running Out. To read more, order at fdv528@comcast.net ($13, postage paid). To find out more, read the postings below. Before Time He waded out of the sea at dawn, the duffle bag … Continue reading
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Oxi Day
Did you know that on October 31 Greeks celebrated a National Holiday? Oxi Day remembers the day when, in response to Mussolini’s 1940 ultimatum demanding that Italy and Germany be permitted to occupy parts of Greece, Prime Minister Metaxas (yes the name is the same … Continue reading
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Carmel discovers Time Running Out
The following appeared in the Carmel Residents Association Newsletter: Members in the spotlight: Another Winning Mystery by Fran Vardamis Attention fans of Frances Diem Vardamis’ Lavonis mystery series: you have a marvelous reading experience awaiting you with this long-time CRA … Continue reading
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The latest review of Time Running Out
Debbie Sharp, graduate of Mills College, journalist with the Carmel Pine Cone, and English instructor at Monterey Peninsula College says of Time Running Out: In her fifth YannisLavonis mystery, Frances Diem Vardamis has given us her best. The plot is … Continue reading
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From Athens to St. Petersburg to Moscow and beyond
Another TIME RUNNING OUT Review Barbara Darrah, Board Member of the Friends of the Harrison Memorial Library (Carmel, California) and retired Instructor in the German Department of the Defense Language Institute discusses Time Running Out: Athens’ controversial detective, … Continue reading
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TIME RUNNING OUT Review
Edwin Cranston, Professor of Japanese Literature at Harvard, comments on Time Running Out : “This “philosophical, apocalyptic thriller” (in the author’s words) takes her Athenian detective Yannis Lavonis to Russiaon the trail of stolen Orthodox icons. There he encounters his own … Continue reading
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