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Patricia Lynne Duffy is Curator for Literature.

Patricia Lynne Duffy is the author of Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens and the first synaesthete to write a book on inherited synaesthesia.

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Music, the Fuel of Art and Spaceships-part 2

The composers Gaby Cardoso and Timothy B. Layden are interviewed by Patricia Lynne Duffy Synesthetes Timothy B. Layden and Gaby Cardoso composed “Shared Colors”, music that fueled a spaceship in Layden’s sci-fi novel, Dreams of Laika Timothy Layden Gaby

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Music, the fuel of art and spaceships

A Q&A with Timothy B. Layden about his new synesthetic science fiction book, Dreams of Laika Timothy Layden is an artist who “paints music”—music fuels his visual art as it does his new science fiction novel The author is

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The Astonishment of Human Diversity

A memory and an appreciation of the late Peter Brookby Patricia Lynne Duffy  Peter Brook The Valley of Astonishment Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.   “I’d

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The Colors of Crime

A Q&A with author Sarah J. Harris. Author Sarah J. Harris creates a fascinating neurodivergent character in her thriller, The Color of Bee Larkham’s Murder The author is interviewed by Patricia Lynne Duffy PLD: The Color of Bee Larkham’s Murder is

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Kandinsky’s Singing Colors

A Q&A with Barb Rosenstock, author of The Noisy Paintbox  The Noisy Paintbox, illustration by Mary Grandpré Barb Rosenstock Author Barb Rosenstock writes a wonderful, colorful book about the life of synesthete-artist Kandinsky—one in a series spotlighting heroes in

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Hemingway had Paris and TJ Parker has Laguna

Q&A with T. Jefferson Parker, best-selling novelist of detective fiction Author T. Jefferson Parker: “Hemingway had Paris and I have Laguna… “Our senses are the gateways to our consciousness, so if those senses are heightened by synesthesia, psychotropic drugs,

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Listening to Fragrance – Part 2

An excerpt from Homage to Zhang Yu” by Ninghui Xiong and Patricia Lynne Duffy Here, we present “Part 2” of the previous post, “Listening to Fragrance” (the Q&A with 14th century Chinese poet, Zhang Yu, whose poem beautifully expressed

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