When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully – also bring… emotional relevance to the piece.
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Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don’t get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.
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Oscar Hijuelos (14)
Birth: | 24th August, 1951 |
Death: | 12th October, 2013 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist |
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Oscar Jerome Hijuelos was an American-born novelist of Cuban descent. During a year long convalescence from a childhood illness spent in a Connecticut hospital he lost his knowledge of Spanish, his parents' native language. He was educated in New York City, and wrote short stories and advertising copy.
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