{"text":"Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one’s memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["arabesque","book","book-of-oneself","book","exploration","exploration","marrakech","marrakech","marrakesh","marrakesh","medina","moroccan-literature","morocco","morrocan","roman-payne","roman-payne","sahara-desert","saharan-soliloquy","the-arabesque","the-writing-life","the-writing-process","travel","travel-writing","writers","writers-and-writing","writers-inspiration","writers-life","writers-on-writing","writers","writers-world"],"id":118150,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"}