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I was Catalina, Oxford, Serrano

Hollywood Notebook by Wendy C. Ortiz

April 13, 2015 by A.Winfree Leave a Comment

I was Catalina, Oxford, Serrano

Hemingway said: “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”  Written following her return home to Los Angeles after eight years in Olympia, Washington, Hollywood Notebook is a beautiful collection of fragments, prose and poetry, by Wendy Ortiz — little glimpses into the author’s days, memories, plans, and dreams. It’s a work that skillfully and heartbreakingly captures a special moment in time — a talented young writer, about to take flight. It is also the story of young person enduring painful transformation in pursuit of her passions. If you’ve already endured the horror of your late twenties/early thirties — encountering all those “milestones that double as landmines,” […]

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