Stop Making Sense, or How to Write in the Age of Trump

An essay on the importance of embracing in literature the conflict and destruction likely to arise in America in the coming four years. The piece is written from the perspective of a Bosnian-born novelist who got stuck in the United States in 1992 because of conflict in his native country that upended everything he felt sure of.

Source: Village Voice
Published: Jan 17, 2017
Length: 10 minutes (2,737 words)
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