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I End Up Writing Something Every Day, Since I Develop Six Or Seven Things At The Same Time - Soccer Columns, This And That.

As Long As There Are Living Human Beings, There Will Be Language And Stories.

You Have To Suspend Thinking In Narratives. The Moment You Are Conscious Of Yourself The Gap Opens Up. And In This Gap, Stories Are Generated.

I Like To Blow Up This Notion That All We Have To Do As Writers And Artists Is Represent Reality, Which Is Presumably Solid And Self-evident, With No Negotiation Of The Gap Between Myself And The World, Between This Body And This Space, Which Needs Narration To Close It.

When I Came To America, I Was Already A Writer, Already Published In Bosnia. I Was Planning To Go Back, But I Had No Choice But To Stay Here After The Civil War, So I Enrolled At Northwestern In A Master's Program And Studied American Literature.