My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books,...
Marina wouldn't want to be remembered because she dead. She would want to be remembered because she's good.
George, if you ever break the spine of one of my books, I want you to know that you might as well be breaking my own spine.
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.
I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.
I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.
Shakespeare was an anti-Semite,
I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.
You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?
You can miss a lot by sticking to the point.
Now I only have one rule. Before I do anything I ask, Is it okay? Because I'm an American woman and they don't expect me to act like a Hmong anyway, they usually give me plenty of leeway.
I have never been able to resist a book about books.
The chambermaid believed in courtly love. A book's physical self was sacrosanct to her, its form inseparable from its content; her duty as a lover was Platonic adoration, a noble but doomed attempt to...
The European immigrants who emerged from the Ford Motor Company melting pot came to the United States because they hoped to assimilate into mainstream American society. The Hmong came to the United St...
In Minneapolis, tires were slashed and windows smashed. A high school student getting off a bus was hit in the face and told to go back to China. A woman was kicked in the thighs, face, and kidneys, a...
He was constantly, pathologically, insanely busy. That’s how he afforded the wine.
After they returned home, a performed the ritual chant that accompanied his journey to the realm of the unseen. During the chant, the cow’s severed head was sitting on the Lees’ front stoop, welcomin...
To nature lovers, the season of new beginnings is the spring, but to people who excel in school, it's the fall.
The Hmong community might not always meet the expectations of the American community, but it certainly knew how to run itself. Blia once drew me a flowchart-which was Cartesian-delineating how his org...
If you can’t see that your own culture has its own set of interests, emotions, and biases, how can you expect to deal successfully with someone else’s culture?