Martin Cid, my friend

Martin Cid

I have been reading Martin Cid's novels from years (well, not many, we are not so old!). High literature, in my opinion, sometimes funny and with close characters (I identified with them and their miseries or joys) but with complex structures and an innovate sense of time.
This is what he seeks: 'Literature is time, the last taboo of people', he used to say.
Martin Cid is a really talkative person, very friendly and active. He has always new ideas and he likes to share them with friends. From Yareah magazine to lectures and exhibitions, he has been involving us at his interesting projects, nobody has never refused, he has always excited us.
He likes talking, eating, smoking and drinking. He often jokes that all writers have been drunk. Not him, I've never seen him drunk. He is physically huge, no bottle of whisky would knock down.
Now he is preparing a new serial novel to publish in Yareah magazine. He has been thinking about it the last months:
'You will read it soon, Michael. It will be different, I dislike repetition'.
'First post, will be at the beginning of 2012, to start the year with a new emotion!.
Happy Cristmas, Martin.
I am waiting for the novel!!

My caricature in Yareah

Isabel del Rio has painted some full color caricatures of Yareah magazine team. I like the mine, it is better than my own face.

About the Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

http://yareah.com/?p=513

Martin Cid, yareah editor

The novelist Martin Cid is the editor of Yareah magazine. Recently, I have interviewed him.

Q.- Yareah magazine has been several months “sleeping” but now you have published a new issue (19) titled “Seven to Seven”. Why that break?

Martin Cid.- It is hard to maintain a free magazine. Of course, the good part is that you can publish what you like, without thinking in the economic benefit of this or that article. However, people have to work only for the pleasure of working and sometimes, everybody needs a rest.

Q.- What have you been doing during this time?

M.C.- Writing, as always. I wrote a book of short stories...

Read the complete interview:

http://yareah.com/?p=329

About Mark Twain

I like this author and I have written about him in Yareah magazine issue 20.
Mark Twain (1835-1919)

Mark Twain is the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (better the pen name!), an American author, humorist and speaker, who grew up in Hannibal (Missouri), which would later provide the setting for “Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn”, his two most famous novels.

Read my complete article at: http://yareah.com/?p=288

Asher Brown Durand in Yareah magazine

This was my opinion about the American painter Asher B Durand in Yareah magazine:
He is a fine painter, very accurate and technical. His father was a watchmaker and a silversmith and I think this tradition of working with tiny things has greatly influenced Durand. Furthermore, he was a famous engraver in his youth(from 1812 to 1817) helping the starts of the New York Drawing Association and engraving Declaration of Independence for John Trumbull. This precision work, similar to a miniaturist of the Middle Ages, is evident in his manner of painting nature: leaf by leaf, no detail escapes.
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http://yareah.com/?p=256