Literary Corner
The Making of “Sorry, Bro”
When I wrote the first draft of my romantic comedy novel, Sorry, Bro, I didn’t imagine that anyone beyond my sister and five trusted writing friends would read it. I had written a few novels […]
The Making Of
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The Making of…Marash League Baseball
Author’s Note: This article would not have been possible without the support of my wife Sanan. Her vision provided direction for the piece, and I am grateful for her guidance. The idea came to me […]
Literary Corner
The Making of “Genocide and Resistance”
Genocide and Resistance, my latest book, has recently been published in Argentina by University of Buenos Aires Press. My goal in writing this book was to insert the reader immediately and directly into the history […]
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The Making of: A House in the Homeland, Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory
This book began when my mother insisted that I meet my cousin Nancy. I’m not sure what the cousin relationship is, as Nancy is married to my step-first-cousin, Robert Vinetz; but for my mother, family […]
Film
The Making of ‘What Will Become of Us’
Growing up, my father taught me about the evocative power that visual images have in affecting different ways of seeing and thinking about the historical and contemporary circumstances of the world. When he said it, […]
Music
The Making of “Rachmaninoff & Stravinsky” Album
“She plays the piano like a man!“ That was one of the statements in a review of my 2008 Merkin Hall debut at Lincoln Center. I remember reading this strange expression and suddenly feeling a […]
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The Making of Komitas: Victim of the Great Crime
My interest in Komitas has been evolving since I was a young bride. I used to witness my mother-in-law Kayane proudly show off Komitas’ pictures, which were inscribed to his “sister, Marig.” Marig was Kayane’s […]
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The Making of ‘Under the Light of the Moon’
As a young Armenian American attending a public school in Cranston, Rhode Island, it always frustrated me that the Armenian Genocide, a part of my family’s history, was never taught by any of my teachers. […]
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The Making of ‘Armenia, Australia and the Great War’
On April 25, 1915, just a day after the mass arrest of Armenian leaders in the capital of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, a large force of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzacs) landed […]
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The Making of ‘Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian’
My first memories of my maternal grandfather—the renowned Kütahya ceramicist David Ohannessian, who founded the art of Jerusalem Armenian ceramics in 1919—were tied to the few pieces of brilliantly glazed pottery that occupied an honored […]