Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.

I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is presumably solid and self-evident, with no negotiation of the gap between myself and the world, between this body and this space, which needs narration to close it.

Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.