: About Me

I am a writer who realizes that success does not come overnight. I have been writing since age 11, steadily since 15, and chose writing as my vocation at age 17 - though I knew it would be many a decade before I could hope to benefit materially therefrom.

In addition to poetry and short fiction I have written a novel which I am currently in the process of submitting to publishers.

Being a writer also means that I have held various jobs over the years: pizza delivery boy, environmental campaigner, project manager, driving instructor, temp, linguist, transcriber, curriculum developer and currently freelance translator and proofreader.

I have a BA in English from NYU. I am currently considering pursuing an MFA in creative writing.

My influences are (in chronological order by period of activity): Proust, Joyce, Kafka, Hemingway, Céline, Camus, Kerouac, Burroughs, Jim Morrison and Hunter S. Thompson.

An archive of my old writings is available at: http://mhuhulea.wordpress.com/

My passion is ...

learning.

I know too much about ...

walking uphill.

My parents always told me ...

to stick to the beaten path.

My childhood ambition ...

to be a child.

My favorite memory ...

I like to dwell on the future.

Why I write ...

To share what I know; to attain perfection of the form itself.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Rene Guenon-The Crisis of the Modern World, Proust-Swann's Way

My first job ...

was as pizza delivery boy, at 17.

My inspiration ...

can come from anywhere, at any time.

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I think the question itself is incredibly offensive. Rapists have rights. They have the right to an attorney, the right to a trial by a jury of their peers, the right to food, shelter, toilet and shower facilities if incarcerated, even the right to a "humane" death if this is their sentence - besides many other additional rights. Murderers have rights. In theory at least, every person has rights. So why not smokers? Perhaps it's because smokers have come to be considered a nuisance to decent, freedom-loving folk everywhere, folks who don't want their rights to "fresh, clean air" impinged u...

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