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Who Turned Off the Lights?–When Creativity Leaves the Room
I am a writer who is most creative when I am not writing. Ideas for my novels strike when I am doing the simplest things. Taking a shower. Walking the dog. Playing Candyland with my four-year-old. The...
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Thank You
When my friends ask why I like to write, I always just shrug and say, “I don’t know. I just do.” But when I’ve tried to pinpoint why I like writing, I have found it a lot harder than I expected...
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In Search of Joyce
Drifting down Broadway, I think of you. The philosopher Roland Barthes argued that the author is dead in his work and that the reader doesn’t need to know him. But this is not true, at least not for...
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My World
I have always thought “my world” is too small. Living in a crowded city in Bangladesh, I am surrounded by one “class” of people. I am rooted in a conservative society in which, from a very young age,...
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Life’s Quintessence
A sumptuous delicacy, sour and sweet Bitter at times, but a feisty feast A subtle symphony of righteousness and goodwill Mellow melody that comes along, a dream to fulfill Elegant as a lyrical...
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A Message to Youth
Let me tell you a story that begins on a ridge in Borneo, close to dusk, with thunder over the valley and the forest alive with the electrifying roar of black cicadas. I was sitting by a fire with an...
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Juno
She was a name. A single compilation from 26 letters into a single meaning, a single girl. She was a name that survived on the tip of her pen in the loose pages of her triple-ringed journal. The word...
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