Amy Waldman
Amy Waldman
Amy Waldmanis an American author and journalist. She was a reporter with the New York Times for a total of eight years. For three years she was co-chief of the South Asia bureau. Before that she covered Harlem, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and the aftermath of 9/11...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
children two attention
My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.
mash-up taste kind
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
bully sorrow
Sorrow can be a bully.
fruit pessimist brown
[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.
japan people example
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.
graham jane
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
america gold tin
In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.
country past thinking
I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?
men air space
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 drown, the absence of talk as constricting as the absence of air.