{"id":35013,"date":"2012-07-06T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=35013"},"modified":"2012-07-09T14:31:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T18:31:38","slug":"binyavanga-wainaina-nairobi-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/06\/binyavanga-wainaina-nairobi-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Binyavanga Wainaina, Nairobi, Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Binyavanga_Wainaina1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Binyavanga_Wainaina1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Binyavanga_Wainaina\" width=\"600\" height=\"428\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Binyavanga_Wainaina1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Binyavanga_Wainaina1-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nI have lived in this cramped little cottage near Ngong Forest in Nairobi for the past year. After many winters abroad, I find myself unable to work indoors. Nairobi gets very cold in June and July, but I like to work free of the prison of the house. I love the tingling pullover of night sounds and forest sounds and the bite of cold breeze and distant cars and stereos. Sometimes I close my eyes and sway my arms into patterns to move with the sensations of the strong bitpieces banging about in my temples. The bitpieces are almost always word-based moods. They live and die fast. When the bitpieces catch characters or a probable course of narrative action, my fingers start to keyboard peddle furiously. If I stop, the whole world crumbles. If the bitpiece world crumbles, I stop. Days, sometimes bad-mood weeks can go by before momentum is found again. Tennis helps. And fermented millet porridge. And my lover. \u2014Binyavanga Wainaina<\/p>\n<p>[tweetbutton]<\/p>\n<p>[facebook_ilike]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. I have lived in this cramped little cottage near Ngong Forest in Nairobi for the past year. After many winters abroad, I find myself unable to work indoors. 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