About the Author
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Blurbarian Since
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August 2007
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Name
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Bill Evans
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Location
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San Francisco, CA
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My Occupation
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Writer
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My Bio
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Working with his long time partner who handles the photography, Bill prefers to focus on the writing, “In a way I don’t really ‘see’ an event until I’ve written about it. It’s as if the act of holing up in a room for hours in some way a substitutes for simply being out there and reliving an actual experience.” Explaining further, “I write like a photographer composes pictures. Each paragraph is crafted to be exactly 10” x 8” and I strive to place the key sentence at a point in the paragraph where it creates maximum artistic tension when looked at on the page.” This revelation in writing came about when Bill was accidentally lulled into a rather literal interpretation of Milan Kundera’s The Art of the Novel. Having just started it, he put it down to go to the bathroom and when he returned he absentmindedly picked up an adjacent open copy of Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida, the seminal book on photography, and continued reading, thinking it the Kundera tome.
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