I Was, As A Kid, Really Obsessed

Stories Are Hard. I Have Friends Who Knock Out Stories On A Weekly Or Monthly Basis, Like They're Running On Medicinal-strength Updike. But For Me A Story Is As Daunting A Prospect As A Novel.

My Greatest Responsibility Is To Acknowledge The Mistakes And The Shortcomings Of The Country In Which I Live, To Acknowledge My Privileges, And To Try To Make It A Better Place.

...one Of Those Very Bad Men That Not Even Postmodernism Can Explain Away.

I Sat Down Next To Her. Took Her Hand. This Can Work, I Said. All We Have To Do Is Try.

People Can Say What They Want, But Historically, Feminism In The Dominican Republic Has Been Extremely Strong.