[on The Philippines:] ... Eighty Dialects And

Becoming A Mother Has Helped Make Me A Tougher, Stronger Writer.

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'm Preparing For A Multimedia Theater Piece, Airport Music, That's Coming Up In New York City.

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.

I Don't Believe In Sampling Some Tibetan Music Just To Make It Sound Groovy, But You Do Your Homework, You Understand What You're Doing With It.