Your Memories Become Fantasies If They Are

Chicago Has Very Few Public Spaces Where People Are Encouraged To Get Together. It's Partly To Prevent Riots, And Also To Segregate A City With A History Of Racial Segregation.

To Me, The Solidarity Of Readers Is Far More Important Than The Solidarity Of Writers, Particularly Since Readers In Fact Find Ways To Connect Over A Book Or Books, Whatever They May Be.

In Bosnian, There's No Distinction In Literature Between Fiction And Nonfiction; There's No Word Describing That.

Writing Is A Mode Of Agency In The World That Is Different From Mere Employment. There Has To Be Some Sort Of Ethical Or Moral Drive, Even If You Are Unaware Of It.

You Can See The Diversity That Pieces In The Anthology Represent, And Then The Interconnections-obvious And Less Obvious-between Various Stories Or Between Various Modes Of Storytelling. Diversity Generates Need For Conversation, Conversation Generates Common Interests, As Well As Differences. Literature, As A Human Project, Is All About That.