"I probably shouldn’t admit this, but writing for me sometimes begins in a spirit of revenge. I looked it up recently:…"

"For both of my parents, it was very clear to them we were going to identify as Black — in a city as racist as Boston,…"

"I think all serious artists at some point waver in their self-belief. But you also have to have those moments when yo…"

"I use the word mulatto a lot in my work, and I have sort of rejected the more politically correct term of "biracial" …"

"I wrote a pilot for a show that was based on my work. I wrote an original pilot for a limited series that is still ou…"

"I think it’s always true for every writer that your debut novel stands on its own, but your second novel is always se…"

"...To grapple with race is not at odds or separate from the craft of writing fiction."

"My mother had this book lying around our house in the 1980s called “The Big Book of Jewish Humor.” I remember looking…"

"I was making fun of the fact that the people with the least financial reward – the smallest piece of the pie – fight …"

"Novels are more like a marriage, stories more like affairs. A novel is something you live with for years and the char…"