Read “92 Days” by Larry Brown in the book Big Bad Love.
See the movie Before Night Falls. There’s a scene where the main character is typing on a balcony in the burning hot sun, sweating and smiling and you will know what I am talking about when you see it. (Of course read the book as well, by Reinaldo Arenas).
Read John Fante’s Ask the Dust.
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As a Southerner and lover of Southern fiction as well as a staff writer for a local newspaper in northwest Georgia, Larry Brown is one of my favorite authors. The world lost a treasure when he died.
I love that movie and I always get inspired when I see that very scene. I have a dream of going to Cuba and writing, just because of that movie–which was actually shot in Mexico! Beautiful!