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…we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language… Oscar Wilde

October 9, 2017 by Vickie Lester

Author William Kuhn and I both spent some formative years in London. We comprised part of the tide of children in dowdy woolen uniforms that crossed the city every day by tube or bus (or a combination of both) to school. We scratched out essays in fountain pen with consistently ink stained fingers, and probably, if pressed, could remember our Latin declensions. And I won’t get into the Latin version of Jingle Bells, well, I’ll just say it had something […]

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This time last year I was deep into the novel, working with my line editor in London…

October 22, 2014 by Vickie Lester

An example of a photo you’d take while waiting to receive your editor’s daily notes – how could anyone question the literary output of one who would wear such socks? Now you see exactly why I need an editor, a little governing is always a good idea faced with baffling sartorial license — not to mention the liberties I take with the English language — I know I’ve mentioned this before, but my poetic license? Revoked.

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George Orwell: Why I Write – Vickie Lester: Isn’t that fascinating?

November 5, 2013 by Vickie Lester

I, Vickie Lester, am writing this semi-confessional in a place whose inhabitants are often thought to exist in bubble; living in a state of dreamy incomprehension brought about by mild weather and consistently brilliant blue skies, denizens of La-La Land… If this is a bubble, it’s clearly made of titanium. It is a center of creativity, and on a spectacularly visceral—in the dark—with glimmering lights—seen around the world—level. We (and by that I mean, me…make that, I ) may not […]

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