I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown... →
Junot Diaz
Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible... →
I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my... →
Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than most of us care... →
I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that you love a country is... →
I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my 'cheater's book,' my book about sucios desgraciados. My plan... →
Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.
I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school.
We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us enjoying writing it and reading... →
When I think about my own relationships to the women that I really loved, it feels like that love, even after we've broken up and we're no... →