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When we talk about Minnesota, we think about Garrison Keillor, we think of Prince, we think of Bob Dylan. But there are all of these refugees here.
That character in Academy Gothic was the gateway for me to tackle the topic head-on…
Form has to follow function. A braided narrative isn’t the best approach to every story.
The scientific and technical nature of CTE was certainly a challenge: as a writer, I needed to do my homework.
We can express emotions in many ways, but as writers, we’re sentenced to the sentence. And to words.
There’s going to be somebody like you out there who needs to hear your voice.
[My dad] had a charming way of denying frightful events, of bringing humor and lightness to our childhood.
“If you’re born into contemporary American culture, though it’s changing a lot, the idea that there are only two genders is very much there.”
“I remember my Dad telling my sister and me, ‘You are a double minority, black and a woman, you gotta be twice as good to get half as much.’”
…what is truthful is that the way that you remember it is how you have been constructed, no matter how minutely or profound that was.
