Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I’ve a call. less than 1 minute read
But whenever history is in the making, there’s some kind of intangible feeling. less than 1 minute read
Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines. less than 1 minute read
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women’s history. less than 1 minute read
When I’m not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I’m not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I’m reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. less than 1 minute read
Why shouldn’t rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it’s this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they’re black, can’t and shouldn’t aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. less than 1 minute read
As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful. less than 1 minute read
Never in our country’s history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days. less than 1 minute read
Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we’ve done that before. less than 1 minute read
I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term. less than 1 minute read
