Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Novelists are boring
Unless they're from war-torn countries and had Shakespeare-quoting literature teachers who became murderers and dictators during an ethnic cleansing terrorizing event. Like, I said, not all of them.
Aleksander Hemon learned English about ten years ago when he came here from Serbia on a trip and watched his people die on TV. He stayed here and learned the language like Malcolm X or Vladimir Nabakov and continued his work in journalism. He then wrote some stories that people gushed about. Here is a short article.
