I'm really sort of cautious about being too didactic. To me there are writers that can do that, but I think they drown in that after a while. I do th….

In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people..

What really resonated with my students, I think, is that most of the writers we worked with were journalists, and when they saw journalists simply ra….

If one is writing in a way that is questioning, or even raising questions about how we are supposed to negotiate the world - even if it is about the ….

I love factoids. It's hard for me to keep those out. It just takes realizing that it's stopping the character. Part of it is the decision to keep thi….

Often people who already had an interest in human rights work. What I did notice with all of them, even the people who professed to be interested in ….

My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the political prisoners ….

The fact that my students could be in a little college in a little college town on the coast of Rhode Island, and be connecting in other countries wi….