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Kate Braverman
American
Novelist
Born:
1950
Am
Angeles
Women
Work
Writers
You
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You don't just leave Los Angeles. Such a departure requires magical intervention. You can't simply purchase a ticket to another destination. You must disappear.
Kate Braverman
You
Destination
Intervention
Must
Purchase
Angeles
Magical
Disappear
Simply
Ticket
Another
Leave
Los
Los Angeles
Departure
Just
Requires
I have a great ability to improvise verbally, and I am very funny on a dime.
Kate Braverman
Funny
Great
Improvise
Dime
Ability
Verbally
Am
Very
I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.
Kate Braverman
Technically
Borderline
Features
Many
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.
Kate Braverman
Work
Eyes
Dangerous
Books
Ears
Madame
Touch
Computer
Written
Feel
Like
Know
Most
Toxic
Deal
Discovery
Very
Should
Internal
Elements
Acts
Things
Need
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.
Kate Braverman
Work
Writing
Out
Bizarre
Angeles
About
Shallow
Area
Outside
Idea
New
Industry
Vulgar
Geography
Los
Los Angeles
Exists
Banal
Trained
York
Any
Done
New York
Being
Establishment
Movie
Screens
Movie Industry
Sensibility
Being Done
Prejudice
Publishing
Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
Kate Braverman
Women
Complicated
Men
Characters
Critics
Unpredictable
Threatening
More
Writers
Industry
Wives
Male
Women Writers
Want
Interested
Challenging
Publishing
Presenting
I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
Kate Braverman
Soul
Women
Ghetto
Characters
Kind
Find
Writers
Operating
Within
Narrow
Trying
Confines
Inherit
Spectrum
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