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We have a whole bunch of young people and a whole bunch of families. Are we going to disrupt these families and tear them apart? Or are we going think, like, listen - these people are here. We've got to deal with this reality. We've got to extend the franchise.

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I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.

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Let me tell you, if I could write one-tenth as fast as some of my friends, I'd be made. I'd be it. But instead I happen to be, in the tree of life of writers, down at the bottom, with the hematodes.

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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 to imagine. Cities, after all, for all their massiveness, all their there-ness, are acutely vulnerable.

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My thing is every generation of Americans has to answer what we call the 'Superman Question.' Superman comes, lands in America. He's illegal. He's one of these kids. He's wrapped up in a red bullfighter's cape. And you've got to decide what we're gonna do with Superman.

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It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it.

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I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.

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I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

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For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican Republic and some N.Y.C. - so from one perspective you could say that the place in my work always comes first.

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'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 31st, 1968

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