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

I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was not a good situation to be in. That by itself took a long time to overcome.

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.

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

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

There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.

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.