Sunday, January 3, 2021

The best author’s note I’ve come across [Katrina]

 By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across—each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip—is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.

From The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine...not the novel itself. Just- “just”- the author’s note/acknowledgements.

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