Growing Up In The Philippines, I Loved

Everything Matters. Time Is Precious.

There Were Also Horror Shows On The Radio. Very Terrifying And Thrilling To Me As A Kid. They Had All These Creepy Sound Effects. They Would Come On At Ten O'clock At Night, And I Just Would Scare Myself To Death.

Adaptability Is The Simple Secret Of Survival.

Writers And Scholars Have Emerged In Recent Times (some Familiar, Some New) To Continue To Challenge The Notion Of A Literature That Encompasses The World - And Reaffirms Our Existence In It. It Is A Multicultural Vision That Embraces And Includes Our Shrinking Universe; It Is A Multicultural Vision That The White Man Fears And A Vision That The Rest Of Us Can Celebrate.

I Don't Know What Issues Concerning Identity Have Helped Contemporary Fiction Evolve To What It Is Now. All I Know Is That The Range Of Voices That Are Being Heard And Published Is A Lot More Diverse Than When I Was Coming Up.