For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.
From Alice McDermott
My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.
I think 'Charming Billy' ultimately is a novel about faith and what we believe in and, above all, what we choose to believe in.
Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures.
I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.
I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.
I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories.
My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.
I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.
At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.
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