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...WRITE A NOVEL AFTER EVERYTHING ELSE YOU'VE TACKLED? I wanted to tell a kind of ignored story about the most important war in which America's ever been involved. And I wanted to do it in a highly personal way so that I could describe the torture that went on within the hearts and minds of 25% of the inhabitants of America--all British citizens--who finally made a decision to break away from the King of England. Also, it was kind of a challenge to me. I was ready to try something...
...collapse and be frightened now. And for me, everything is so much better on this album. My first album, I felt good about it, but I didn't know what I was doing. That's scary. It's one thing to sit in front of a piano and write songs. It's a whole other thing to put a record together...
...More than 80 percent of those we have heard from about this issue—including more than 300 alumni—have asked us to write you to express their outrage at your conduct,” the letter states...
...like: ‘I write fiction,’” he said, in the all-purpose voice he uses to mock everyone from himself to President Bush. “‘I view the world through fiction… I am a vessel…’” We laughed. My laugh was a little uneasy, though, because he had touched on part of my identity; I’m a creative writing student, and (try as I might) I don’t always find that so funny...
When Fatou Diome handed a copy of her first novel to her beloved grandmother in Senegal, the response was tepid. For the illiterate older woman, stories are something you tell, not write. "She's happy for me," Diome explains, "but she doesn't really understand." The French, however, know a literary sensation when they see one. Le Ventre de l'Atlantique (The Belly of the Atlantic), a bittersweet account of immigration and exile, is currently at the top of the French best-seller lists. The French daily Le Figaro gushed: "There are a thousand clichés about immigration...