Whatever Solidarity I Have Established With Other

Nobody Deserves Death, Yet Everybody Gets It.

I Want A Book To Contain A World - Indeed The World. Writing Is My Main Means Of Engagement With The World And I Want The Scars Of That Engagement To Be Left In The Language.

You Can See The Diversity That Pieces In The Anthology Represent, And Then The Interconnections-obvious And Less Obvious-between Various Stories Or Between Various Modes Of Storytelling. Diversity Generates Need For Conversation, Conversation Generates Common Interests, As Well As Differences. Literature, As A Human Project, Is All About That.

I Hate Traveling And Being Away From My Family. But I Like Meeting My Readers, As What I Write Is Actualized In Them. Those Encounters Are Exhilarating To Me.

Literature Is Always Something - It Is Either Story Or Poetry, Ideally Both. That Is, You Always Know What It Is And Even If The Interpretation Is Not Available, The Experience Of Language Is.