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Reading. Breathing. No TV, just books, just us. In those few days, I fell in love with Agatha Christie and…
I remember my heart breaking for Joe when he goes to visit Pip in London, and Pip’s embarrassment at Joe’s…
I felt a particular affinity with writers who brought the ‘folk’ into literature. Much later I encountered Zora Neale Hurston’s…
I can’t recall why I bought All Quiet on the Western Front. I imagine I thought it was going to…
On my arrival in Britain in the 1960s, I suffered serious racism, mainly at school, where my accent was constantly…
I used to read a book each week. Today I feel as if I write a book each week. I…
I reached my destination. The beautiful, big-skied, bleeding mothercountry of Toni Morrison. I swear she came to me rather than…
The fact is, Dahl used racist, anti-Semitic, classist, and viciously cruel language in his books. The fact is, I never…
Ntozake Shange, a Black feminist, in the 1980s, innovated in literature by creating choreopoetry, a long-form, poetic-prose narrative written for…
I’ve continued to incorporate myths, modern myth-making, magic realism, as part of my writing. It all stems from this formative…
Where once I was intimidated by Seamus Heaney’s brilliance, these days I am inspired by the poets whose work I…
John the barber seemed to have just two interests beyond haircuts, if his magazines were any indication — golf, and…
