Victoria Noe

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What Do Writers Dream?

What Do Writers Dream?
Nov 23, 2018 by Victoria Noe


Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality. - Malala Yousafzai

 

A post popped up on Facebook a couple weeks ago that got my attention. It was an event involving the writer-in-residence at the Savoy Hotel in London.

I’ve had an unnatural obsession with the Savoy since at least high school; maybe earlier. I have no idea how it started, but I think it was sparked by this 1923 photo of Fred and Adele Astaire dancing on the Savoy’s roof. It’s a photo I still love: dancing on the roof, on a foggy day in London town. Maybe it’s the joy on their faces.

On my first trip to London in 1988 I spent as much...