Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from
My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It’s strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.
As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to
I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a
I’m kind of a mash-up of taste – Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government’s approach to Islamic terrorism.
I found ‘The Twin’ sitting on a coffee table at a writers’ colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification
Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt
As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source – it all needs to add up and make sense. In
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