I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.

Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically correct that.

The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate.

Only when you leave do you appreciate what binds American people and our cultural experience together.

It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.

Prajna is insight into the world. And a lot of that insight has to do with karma and the way karma affects our lives.

There's an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity.