We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.

The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.

We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.

All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.

Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.

Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in a shop whose name was synonymous with colonial exploitation and the rapacious ruin of the third world.

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.