Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.
So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architec… - Amy Waldman
So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architec…
- Amy Waldman
Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing wor… - Amy Waldman
Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing wor…
In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin. - Amy Waldman
In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.
Sorrow can be a bully. - Amy Waldman
Sorrow can be a bully.
In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these bra… - Amy Waldman
In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these bra…
As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's ofte… - Amy Waldman
As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's ofte…
And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, … - Amy Waldman
And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, …
In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in which you could drow… - Amy Waldman
In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in which you could drow…
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it ass… - Amy Waldman
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it ass…
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