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This text of Dr. King's "Making the Best of a Bad Mess" sermon encourages the congregation at Ebenezer Baptist Church to remain faithful in times of destitution. He makes clear the point that happiness is not found, but is instead created.
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LEIPZIG, Germany (Reuters) - Bruce Springsteen jumped off the stage and into a frenzied German crowd of 45,000 fans on Sunday in Leipzig to pluck a sign with a hand-written request scrawled on it - as he has been doing all summer on his popular tour across Europe.
But when Springsteen whirled around and held up the name of the song for his band to see, jaws dropped and a frightened look crossed their faces. The sign read "You never can tell" by Chuck Berry, a 1964 tune made popular in the 1994 film "Pulp Fiction."
"Every night we try to pull one out that we haven't played since we were, I dunno, 16," Springsteen said, savoring the challenge of figuring out how to play an unfamiliar song from another artist on the spot in front of a stadium audience.
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Springsteen and the E Street band then nailed "You never can tell" and the crowd loved them for it just as an even larger crowd did last Saturday at the Stade de France in Paris when he took a request in the crowd for "Lucille".
"Someone's trying to stump the E Street band," Springsteen laughed before the band aced the Little Richard number in Paris.
Leipzig was as enthralled by the boundless energy of Springsteen on Sunday as were similarly large and enthusiastic crowds in Moenchengladbach, Germany on Friday, in Geneva on Wednesday and in London last Sunday.
The 63-year-old American rock icon has been filling stadiums and venues around the world for nearly 16 months on a 130-stop "Wrecking Ball" tour.
It's been a tour full of audience requests that has tested the musical skills of Springsteen and his E Street band but at the same time given audiences something new every night to cheer about at shows from Spain to Sweden and Scotland to Switzerland.
Even many of the hardcore fans who trek around Europe to see his concerts have also been impressed by his ever-changing gigs. The set list is never the same as he draws titles from his 17 studio albums in five decades but also from other artists.
"We're playing it loose tonight," he said in Moenchengladbach, a small town west of Cologne. "This is what we used to do in the nightclubs. 'Hey, 10 euros for a song'."
Many are Springsteen hits but many are from other artists that he and his band might not have heard or played in years - or even decades. His forays into the crowd for obscure titles cause his band visible concern but make each concert unique.
In Hanover in May, Springsteen grabbed a sign in which a fan offered a body organ to hear "Drift Away". Springsteen told the fan he didn't really know the song but wanted him to go home in one piece so he'd give it a go.
Even after 50 years performing, Springsteen still packs stadiums. Ordinary life comes to a halt in many towns. Leipzig has a population of 500,000; there were 45,000 at the concert. Moenchengladbach has 250,000 and 35,000 were at the stadium.
His six-leg, 130-stop "Wrecking Ball" began on March 18, 2012 in Atlanta and is nearing its end. It will conclude after 10 more stops in Italy, Belgium, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, England and then in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September 21.
Most crowds are on their feet after about 30 minutes into the three hour shows. But not always.
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"I realize I haven't done my job yet," he added. "I see so many fine Leipzig-ians still sitting in their seats."
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June 12, 2017
The Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance and Nuclear Watch New Mexico are preparing to sue the federal government to stop the Uranium Processing Facility nuclear bomb plant from being built in Oak Ridge, TN. If built, the UPF would produce thermonuclear cores for Hydrogen bombs at a rate of 80/year.
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The Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA) and Nuclear Watch New Mexico are preparing to sue the federal government to stop the Uranium Processing Facility nuclear bomb plant from being built in Oak Ridge, TN.
What it comes down to is this: Nuclear weapons combine homicide and suicide in a single act; no one escapes. The whole of the nuclear legacy has been poisoning the biosphere from its beginning; producing broad spectrum illness, morbidity and genetic mutations. OREPA has been at the forefront of abolition efforts and in this instance resistance to expanded nuclear weapons production. The law suit they are undertaking if they can raise sufficient funding is the culmination of serious work over a very long time.
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J.D., Loyola Chicago, 1986
Program Areas
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Domestic Violence
ChildLaw Legislation and Policy Clinic
Comparative Domestic Violence Law Seminar (LAW 234)
Children's Summer Institute
Fellows Capstone Seminar
Professional & Community Affiliations
Chapin Hall at University of Chicago, Institutional Review Board (2010-present)
YWCA/North Shore, Chair (2012-present), Vice-President (2009-2012); Chair, Advocacy Committee (2007-2009); Member, Racial Justice Committee (2008-present); Board Member (2005-present);
Family Defense Center, Advisory Council Member (2008- present); Founding Board Member (2005-2007
Clarence Darrow Commemorative Committee, Co-Chair, 1989 – present)
Cook County Lead Poisoning Advisory Council, Member( 2001 – present)
Illinois Lead Safe Housing Advisory Council, Co-chair (January 2005-present)
Illinois Lead Safe Housing Task Force, Chair(1999 –present)
Children's Environmental Health Excellence Award, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2006
Distinguished Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI) Alumni Award, 2003
Edith Spurlock Sampson Juvenile Justice Pioneer Award, 2000
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, in recognition of service to the legal profession through service to the underprivileged, 1993.
Selected Publications
Karen Blumenthal and Anita Weinberg (eds.), Establishing Parent Involvement in Foster Care Agencies, New York: Child Welfare League of America (1984)
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"A Case Study of a Partnership in Chicago to Prevent Childhood Lead Poisoning," in Garbarino and Sigman (eds.) A Child's Right to a Healthy Environment, New York: Springer Publishing Company (2011
Neglected, Abused and Dependent Children - Dispositions and Permanency, (co-authored with Bruce Boyer) in Illinois Juvenile Law and Practice (IICLE 2007, updated 2009, 2012)
Karen Blumenthal and Anita Weinberg, "Involving Parents: Administrative Responsibility," in Establishing Parent Involvement in Foster Care Agencies, New York: Child Welfare League of America (1984)
Karen Blumenthal and Anita Weinberg, "Issues Concerning Parental Visiting of Children in Foster Care," in Hardin, Mark (ed.) Foster Children in the Courts, Boston: Butterworth Legal Publishers (1983)
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Anita Weinberg, "An Introduction to the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997," 24 Children's Legal Rights Journal 1 (Spring 2004)
Anita Weinberg and Carol Harding, "Interdisciplinary Teaching and Collaboration
in Higher Education: A Concept Whose Time Has Come," 14 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy (2004)
Anita Weinberg, "Lead Poisoning Threatens Children's Health, Legal System Responds," 7:1 Public Interest Law Reporter (Spring 2002)
Stacey Platt and Anita Weinberg, "The Question of Best Interest in Failed Adoptions: A Case Study," 4:4 Adoption Quarterly (2001)
Anita Weinberg and Linda Katz, "Law and Social Work in Partnership for Permanency: The Adoption and Safe Families Act and the Role of Concurrent Planning," 18:4 Children's Legal Rts. J. (Fall 1998)
Other Publications
Childhood Lead Poisoning: A Historical Perspective (produced 8 minute video) (2008)
Report to the Illinois General Assembly and Governor on Recommendations of the Illinois Lead Safe Housing Advisory Council (2007)
Lead Safe Chicago: A Strategic Plan to Eliminate Childhood Lead Poisoning in Chicago by 2010 (with Anne Evens) (2004)
Parent's Guide To The Juvenile Court: Abuse and Neglect Proceedings (ISBA, 2000)
Selected Recent Presentations
"Examining the Impact of Lead Laws on Housing Quality and Children's Health," American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics and Public Health Law Research (2012) (webinar panelist)
"Effectively Teaching Legislative and Policy Advocacy: The Pedagogical, Ethical, and Structural Challenges," AALS Clinical Teachers Conference (2012) (workshop presenter)
Legislative and Policy Advocacy Working Group, AALS Clinical Teachers Conference (2012) (three-day workgroup co-facilitator)
Urban Issues Summit: Health Disparities, Loyola University Water Tower Campus Life (2012) (plenary session panelist)
"Policy and Legislative Advocacy: Seen through the Lens of Two Opposite Issues," National
Student Leadership Conference (2011) (presenter)
Juvenile Sex Offenders: Policies and Litigation, Open Society Foundation and Public Welfare
Foundation (2011) (participant, invitational meeting)
"Kids Run Better Unleaded," Loyola-Provident Family Medicine Residency Program (2011)
(plenary session panelist)
"Policy and Legislative Advocacy," UCLA/IALS Seventh International Clinical Conference (2010) (co-presenter)
"Voices and Choices: How the Election Results Affect Illinois Children and Families," Voices
for Illinois Children (2010) (plenary panelist)
"Teaching Policy and Legislative Advocacy through Clinical Education," Clinical Law Review
Workshop, New York University School of Law (2010) (co-presenter)
"Teaching Policy and Legislative Advocacy through Clinical Education,"
25th Anniversary Clinical Theory Workshop, New York Law School (2010) (co-presenter)
"Advocacy and Policy Reform," National Student Leadership Conference (2010) (presenter)
"Fighting Environmental Injustice in Urban Environments," Public Listening Session on
America's Great Outdoors Initiative (2010) (panelist)
"Applying Clinical Theory to the Design and Implementation of Legislative Advocacy Clinics,"
AALS Clinical Teachers Conference (2010) (organizer and co-workshop presenter)
"Challenges in Constructing and Reconstructing Experiential Education Programs," Experiential
Renaissance Roundtable, University of Minnesota School of Law (2010) (roundtable
"Representing the Child: Strategies for Safe and Timely Return Home," Illinois Administrative
Office of the Courts (2009 in Rockford, July 2009 in Effingham and Springfield,
Illinois) (speaker)
"Tackling Childhood Lead Poisoning: Community Organizing, Fostering Collaborations, and
Policy and Legislative Action," Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
(2009) (Inaugural Public Health Grand Rounds Lecture)
"Teaching Advocacy and Policy Reform," Interdisciplinary Collaborative Education Conference,
Georgia State University (2009) (panelist)
"National Health Housing Policy Summit," National Center for Healthy Housing/Alliance for
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Estate Planning for Same-Sex Couples
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This book provides estate planning lawyers with an introduction to the issues faced by lesbian and gay clients, as well as creative solutions to help protect these clients' relationship, their children, and their future. Also provided are forms and documents on CD-ROM that lesbian and gay clients need to prepare as part of a complete estate plan.
Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act, Second Edition
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Written from the perspective of a lawyer with a disability (the author is hearing impaired), this book demonstrates that the Americans with Disabilities Act is not just a law, but a way of life. The second edition includes recent Supreme Court and appellate opinions.
Brown at 50: The Unfinished Legacy: A Collection of Essays
Edited by Deborah L. Rhode and Charles J. Ogletree Jr. (ABA Division for Public Education; 2004; PC 2350212; $35; ABA member price $25)
This timely volume brings together attorneys who were involved in the Brown litigation, current Supreme Court justices, legal scholars, historians, and social scientists to discuss the meaning of the Court's famous 1954 opinion that called for an end to segregated public schools.
The Burdens of Both, the Privileges of Neither
(ABA Commission on Racial & Ethnic Diversity in the Profession; PC 4520003; $10)
The report of the Multicultural Women Attorneys Network, a joint project of the ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession and the Commission on Women in the Profession, outlines the status of multicultural women attorneys.
Dear Sisters, Dear Daughters: Words of Wisdom from Multicultural Women Attorneys Who've Been There and Done That
(ABA Commission on Racial & Ethnic Diversity in the Profession; 2000; PC 4520009; $24)
The Multicultural Women Attorneys Network here compiles a collection of letters offering advice, guidance, and lessons learned from experienced multicultural women attorneys to their younger colleagues.
Disability Discrimination and the Workplace
By Peter A. Susser (ABA Section of Labor & Employment Law; 2005; PC 1620143B1231; $385)
This book offers a detailed analysis of federal and state disability discrimination laws and the interactions of the ADA with other key employment statutes.
Handbook on Disability Discrimination Law
By John W. Parry (ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law; 2003; PC 4410200; $40)
Intended for lawyers, judges, disability professionals, advocates, and law students, this handbook provides a concise but comprehensive summary and analysis, with citations, of the federal and state statutes and case law that define disability discrimination.
The Handbook on Mental Disability Law
By F. Philips Gilliam and John W. Parry (ABA Com-mission on Mental and Physical Disability Law; 2002; PC 4410145; $45)
A must-have primer on mental disability law, from clinical and legal perspectives, that covers both civil and criminal law.
Miles to Go: Progress of Minorities in the Legal Profession
(ABA Commission on Racial & Ethnic Diversity in the Profession; 2005; PC 4520014; $20; ABA member price $18)
This is the third edition of a comprehensive collection of data tracking the progress of minority lawyers on a nationwide, systematic basis.
Raising the Bar: Diversity and Retention in the Legal Profession
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Raising the Bar offers a comprehensive program for finding answers to diversity and retention questions in the legal profession. Based in part on the "National Summit on the Retention of Minority Lawyers in the Private Sector," this package features three videotape programs, two audiotape programs, and "Raising the Bar" workbooks.
Sex-Based Harassment: Workplace Policies for the Legal Profession
(ABA Commission on Women in the Legal Profession; 2002; PC 4920032; $25)
This manual seeks to assist legal employers with initiatives to effectively respond to sex-based harassment.
The Unfinished Agenda
(ABA Commission on Women in the Legal Profession; 2002; PC 4920029; $25)
This report provides the most comprehensive contemporary review of the status of women in the American legal profession and justice system.
Visible Invisibility: Women of Color in Law Firms
(ABA Commission on Women in the Legal Profession; 2006; PC 4920037; $49.95)
This book presents the findings of the Commission's survey and focus group research into the experiences of women of color in law firms and concludes with specific recommendations for law firms to follow.
Women-at-Law: Lessons Learned along the Pathways to Success
By Phyllis H. Epstein (ABA Law Practice Management Section; 2004; PC 5110509; $49.95)
The author interviewed more than 100 women lawyers of all ages, backgrounds, and lifestyles in a wide variety of practice settings nationwide to address how women today are meeting the challenges of competing in an often all-consuming profession without sacrificing their desire for a multidimensional life.
GP|Solo Division Links
- GP|Solo Division's Diversity welcome page: www.abanet.org/genpractice/diversity
- Tolerance Through Education Initiative: www.abanet.org/genpractice/tolerance
- GPSolo magazine's January/February 2004 issue, "The Benefits and Burdens of a Diversified Practice" (full contents): www.abanet.org/genpractice/magazine/2004/jan-feb
- Diversity Fellows Program: www.abanet.org/genpractice/diversity/fellows.html
- Diversity Plan: www.abanet.org/genpractice/diversity/diversityplan.pdf
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- ABA Coalition for Justice's Attacking Bias in the Justice System: A Compendium of Program Alternatives: www.abanet.org/justice/judicialbias
- ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law: www.abanet.org/disability
- ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disabilities Law 2006-2007 Goal IX Report: www.abanet.org/disability/docs/2007GoalIX.pdf
- ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession: www.abanet.org/minorities/
- ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession 2006-2007 Goal IX Report: www.abanet.org/minorities/publications
- ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession Goal IX Newsletter: www.abanet.org/minorities/publications/g9
- ABA Commission on Women in the Profession: www.abanet.org/women
- ABA Commission on Women in the Profession 2006-2007 Goal IX Report Card: www.abanet.org/women/goalix/2007GoalIX-Women.pdf
- ABA Council on Racial and Ethnic Justice: www.abanet.org/randejustice
- ABA National Women's Summit of General Counsels and Managing Partners: www.abanet.org/leadership/initiative/initiative1.html
- ABA Presidential Advisory Council on Diversity in the Profession: www.abanet.org/leadership/councilondiversity
- ABA Resource Guide: Programs to Advance Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Legal Profession: www.abanet.org/leadership/recmenu.html
- Arab-American Bar Association of Illinois: www.arabbar.org
- Hispanic National Bar Association: www.hnba.com
- Lambda Legal: www.lambdalegal.org
- National Asian Pacific American Bar Association: www.napaba.org
- National Bar Association: www.nationalbar.org
- National Lesbian and Gay Law Association: www.nlgla.org
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Practical and affordable mid-size comfort.
Chevy's Malibu is popular for its combination of comfort, quietness, practicality and affordability. This is Chevy's five-passenger family centerpiece. It has to compete with the Ford Taurus, Honda Accord and Toyota Camry, the best-selling cars in America, but the Malibu makes a good account of itself among mid-size cars. Chevrolet sold more than 218,500 of them last year.
The Malibu provides a good account of itself on the road, with good power and handling. More power is on tap for 2000 as a new V6 engine comes on all models. The 2000 Malibu is distinguished by freshened appearance.
The Malibu comes in two trim lines, base and LS. Both come standard with a 3.1-liter V6 engine that replaces last year's 3.1-liter V6 of a different design.
The base model ($16,445) offers a respectable line of standard equipment features: air conditioning, anti-lock brakes, 4-speed automatic transmission, rear-seat child security locks, tilt steering column and tachometer.
LS ($19,215) comes with a nicer cloth interior. It also comes standard with a lot of equipment we take for granted nowadays: power windows/door locks/mirrors, remote keyless entry, electronic speed control, AM/FM/CD/cassette and split, fold-down rear seats.
Malibu's styling does not cry out for attention. That means it might get lost in a crowd; but it also means its looks will hold up better over time than some of the trendier designs. Though Chevrolet is as American as baseball and apple pie, the Malibu's styling shares more in common with the Toyota Camry than it shares with the Ford Taurus. The last-generation Taurus is a good example of the problem with a trendy design.
For 2000, the Malibu's front fascia features a new center grille and emblem that takes a styling cue from the all-new Chevy Impala. New aluminum wheels or wheel covers and new mudguards reinforce the fresh appearance. A new optional spoiler ($175) is also available.
At 190.4 inches, the Malibu is a couple of inches longer than its primary Japanese competitor, the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry, but it is more than seven inches shorter than its main domestic rival, the Ford Taurus.
When it comes to interior amenities, often the little things count. The Malibu's ignition switch, for example, is located on the instrument panel; it's plainly visible and reachable, instead of being hidden at the base of the steering wheel as it is on most cars. Another nice touch is the rotating air vents at the base of the A-pillars that can be swiveled outward to defrost the side window, allowing maximum visibility of the outside mirrors.
Then there are the six-way power seats, which offer up as many seating positions as we've seen in some high-priced luxury cars. The optional leather bucket seats ($595) are as firm, supportive and comfortable as we've seen in some luxury cars. There's commodious front-seat headroom and ample legroom for a six-foot driver. Also earning our praise is the location of the stereo system. It's higher on the dash than on many cars, making it more easily operable.
Our LS cabin's decor was done up in three shades of beige-to-sienna, a scheme that will seem bland to some, comforting to others. The fabric covering the headliner and pillars is plush to the touch, and the double-console configuration is spacious enough to house a half-dozen CDs and another five or six cassette tapes, each with their own notches. The big T-shaped gearshift is a point of debate; some say it's homely. Interior door trim was redesigned for 2000.
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Chevrolet's goal with the Malibu was to provide full-size ride quality and quietness in a mid-size car. On that front, Chevrolet succeeded. Separate steel subframes for the front and rear ends protect the cabin and its inhabitants from engine vibration and from harsh bumps. We were impressed with how well Chevrolet has damped wind noise at high speeds with little touches like recessed door handles and a special windshield seal.
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Bacigalupi lives now in Colorado, where he grew up, but he has spent a lot of time traveling, particularly in Asia and India. In 1999, the same year he published his first story in F&SF, he had an essay at Salon.com about some of his experiences in China. He has worked as a writer and online editor for High Country News and has published essays and articles on conservation issues and politics.
But it's his fiction that intrigued me, and made me seek him out and see if he would be willing to answer some questions. He was, and his replies were fascinating, as you'll see below.
It is hard to describe Bacigalupi's stories effectively, to capture the disturbing oddness of them, the careful prose, the pacing, the imagination. When I first read "The Fluted Girl", I thought the central idea of a child genetically sculpted to be a flute to be a bit silly, but the story stayed with me, it lurked and lingered. "The People of Sand and Slag" made me pay more attention to Bacigalupi, because in some ways it made "The Fluted Girl" seem tame and run-of-the-mill, a considerable accomplishment. "The Pasho" is even more accomplished, and here, it seems to me, the different pieces of Bacigalupi's art all come together. For the benefit of readers unfamiliar with his work, here is one paragraph from "The Pasho":
Raphel ducked his head and stared at his hands, vaguely embarrassed at the women's sudden attention. On the back of his left hand were his first attainment marks: the old alphabet in tiny script. From there, lettering the color of dried blood marched up his arms and stole under his robes. Denotations of rising rank, ritually applied over the years, the chanted mnemonic devices of the ten thousand stanzas, hooks into the core of Pasho knowledge, each one a memory aid and mark of passage. They covered his body in the spiking calligraphy of the ancients, sometimes a mere symbol to hook a bound tome's worth of knowledge, something to recall, and ensure that all Pasho trained later might have access to an unchanging spring of wisdom.And now to the conversation...
It's standard practice to ask authors about their influences, about what they read and such, and it can sometimes be tedious, but your work is so individual in its imagery that I can't help wondering, "What does this guy like to read?" When you are a reader, what do you find fulfilling?Honestly, I'm not sure that much of what I write about comes fromreading, or at least, not directly. Sometimes something clicks for me:when I wrote "Sand and Slag", I ran across an article about a dog inButte, Montana that was surviving in the middle of a mine tailingsdump... and the image hung with me.
A lot of what I find interesting or fulfilling these days is actually non-fiction, some philosophy and political theory, some history... really, it's all over the map, and often I just pick at books, slowly, one after another in a pretty unplanned rotation.
Things I'm picking at right now are Out of Africa, coupled with a biography of Isak Dinesen; Sand Rivers, about a safari into a game reserve in Africa; Song of the Dodo, by David Quammen, which discusses the distribution of species on islands, and the implications for habitat fragmentation on continents; Walden. Some Wendell Berry. Hobbes' Leviathan. Marquis de Sade (he's always good for a no good view of the world). No Depression, the music magazine. The New Yorker. Those are the kinds of things that I pick up when I'm hunting, trying to find something that I'm still not clear on, trying to make my brain kick over.
In fiction, I honestly read very little of it these days, unless its something trashy and brainless. I just re-read the first five books in the Gor series by John Norman, and they were horrible. But I remember totally loving them when I was in high school, so it was fun to return to them. My dad gave them to me for safe-keeping to keep my step-mother from throwing them away. So they were horrible, but I wasn't really reading for ideas or to refill the well, more to shut everything down. Recently my life has actually been somewhat stressful. I've been juggling a new job, and a new baby, so my life has taken a lot of sharp turns recently, and I'm still trying to really settle into the new rhythms of my life. The fiction I read is really for escape, rather than for stimulation.
When I think about where some of my imagery really comes from, it's generally chance moments that for some reason stick, and make me look at the world differently. Mostly, those are things that I experience, rather than things I read. At least, that's the recollection that I have now. Honestly, in the making of a story, so much ends up getting layered into it, that by the time I'm reading it in final draft, I'm often surprised by the details and catch myself thinking "huh, that's not a bad. I wonder who thought that up?" (And then I get a terror that I've actually ripped it out of someone else's story and don't know it). Seriously, though, a lot of the result seems mysterious, even to me. Obviously, the ideas mulch in from somewhere, but it's hard to pick out specific influences. With something like the fluted girl, I was looking for a really nasty way to demonstrate Belari's power over other people, and reaming out people's bones seemed like a great way to go about it. Maybe de Sade helped with that. Maybe not. In the case of other individual images, a lot of them come from my own experience. I went to India a couple years ago with my wife and my mother-in-law (who are both Indian) and my mother-in-law noted the smell of dung smoke in the air. She took this deep breath and said something along the lines of "Do you smell it? It's dung, burning. I love that smell." This is a fairly elite woman, very proper, who runs a fuelcell technology company, and she's waxing nostalgic about dung. And that image stuck. It was a perspective that was new, and I tried to hold onto it. A couple years later, when I started working on the Pasho, and wanted to illustrate the initial homecoming, that image was there for me.
I didn't really think I would be a writer of any sort, for a long time. I read science fiction when I was a kid. My father introduced me to it. He was a big fan, and my grandfather also. I think the first "real" book that I ever read was Citizen of the Galaxy by Heinlein, and it was actually my grandfather's copy. I think I was eight or nine years old. I was really proud that I'd hacked my way through the whole 300-odd pages. So I grew up reading sci-fi, mostly by picking out of my father's collection (a lot of Anne McCaffrey, Heinlein, Poul Anderson, Niven, stuff like that). So it was always there in my mind, as a genre.
Is writing fantasy and science fiction stories something you stumbled into, or is being an SF writer something you dreamed of being from, say, birth?
But you know, you grow up, you go to college, you get a dose of reality, you go get a job, and then another job, you make some money and you start to get a real life... and then you find out that that you don't like the life you're building at all, and you start writing, because it's the only thing that wards off depression. I started working on my first novel about ten years ago and at that time, I'm not quite sure why (maybe because I'd read so much of it), I had a real burning urge to write science fiction -- even though almost all the things I was reading at the time weren't. Around then, I think I was reading Cormac McCarthy, and J.G. Ballard, and Hemingway, stuff like that. But anyway, I wrote that sci-fi book, and managed to avoid selling it, and at the same time I also wrote "Pocketful of Dharma" which came out in F&SF. Harlan Ellison called me up soon after, and after sort of dressing me down and giving me a solid thump on the head about problems he perceived in the story, he told me not to get stuck in the science fiction genre, not to get labelled as an sf writer and to get out while I could. A "Save yourself while there's still time" kind of speech. It was a weird phone call, but in some ways it hung with me. I ended up writing three other novels, and none of them were sci-fi. One historical fiction piece. One contemporary "literary" (whatever) book. And one mystery. And then, at the end of all of that I sort of looked around, and decided that I actually liked writing science fiction quite a lot and went back to it.
So, here I am again, sort of the long way around to get here, but I'm feeling a little more focused because of it. And, I think those other writing projects were instructive for me. Sort of a self-study course in writing, where I got to work out a lot of the questions of craft that I had.
One of the things I like about writing science fiction is that I feel like it gives me a large enough palette to work with my ideas, without having to be constrained by "reality". For me, scif-fi means that I have a huge amount of control over every aspect of the story, and ideally, that means that the characters and plot which I create can then be reinforced, hopefully quite strikingly, with the settings and technologies that I choose for it. What I'm trying for, when the story is really working well, is to create a sort of feedback loop between the setting, the characters, and the plot so that they're mutually reinforcing. With science fiction I feel like I've got room to do that.
Do you think you'll try to publish the early novels you wrote, or are you moving on?I did actually try to get them published. My agent shopped all of them, and I ended up getting a lot of interest, without any final commitment. Typically, I'd have one editor fall in love with the story, and then it would be killed by other editors, stuff like that. With my first sci-fi novel, I actually turned down a publishing offer, because my agent felt the advance was too low. Looking back, maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. At the time I was feeling pretty good about myself, and was confident that I'd write more novels, so I was able to walk away from the offer. Now, older and more bitter, I might go back and take it. Who knows?
At some point, I suspect that I will try again to get those stories out into the world. The rejections had less to do with the quality of the stories, and a lot to do with how they would categorize, and where they would fit into various market segments, and in one memorable case, I was rejected by an editor because, as she put it, "As a mother, this story disturbs me." All of that was a bit of an eye-opener for me, because when I started out writing, I was so sure that if I just wrote a great story, that was all that mattered. I didn't really understand the business end of the book-selling equation. These days, I'm mostly focused on writing new material, and I'm putting most of my energy into short stories, where editors seem to have a little more flexibility about what they buy.
China and the Chinese languages have been, it seems, an important part of your life. How did you develop an interest in China, and where has it led you?I started studying Chinese in college. Originally I didn't actually have much interest in China, per se, but I had this idea that by the time I finished my liberal arts degree, I wanted to be fluent in a language. I was sick of studying Spanish from high school and thought it was too easy, so when I went through the school's course catalog and ran across Chinese as an option I said to myself, "Huh. Chinese. I've heard that's hard." So I picked it. And it turned out I was right. It was really hard. But that was really the only reason. I was so ignorant going into it that I think the full extent of my knowledge about China was that there'd been some kind of a protest there, and it maybe had a big wall... or maybe that was Mongolia. I really was that ignorant. Over time though, I ended up spending a couple years over in China, and it ended up informing a lot of the way I view the world.
If you spend enough time away from your own country, it sort of poisons your psyche. You never get to be a pure American again, because there's this foreign part of your brain that's been jammed in as well. It gives you a bit of double vision when you look at things. And I think that sort of experience, looking askew at the world, also helps me write, somewhat: that off-kilter sense that everyone else thinks something is normal, but you can't quite get on board. The classic example that I hear a lot from people who've been in the Peace Corps or spent a lot of time in a poorer country, is their first view of a supermarket when they return, with its aisles and aisles of food. It seemed so normal before, and yet suddenly it seems perverse.
For me, the first time I really felt off-kilter with home, I was just back from China, and I was walking through a park, and I kept coming across all these awful rodents, and I kept wondering why no one had put out traps or poison for them. And they were squirrels. You just don't see things like squirrels in parks in China, so I'd completely forgotten about them. It's trivial things like that. And also larger ones. Things like the assumptions we carry with us about what fairness is, or honesty, or family, or what human life is worth, or what responsibility means. Things that we take for granted often becuase of common cultural understanding, and yet can have very different meanings for people from other cultures. It's daunting to run up against because you can end up losing your sense of absolutes. And ultimately, when you come back, it makes you think about everything again, because you suddenly have a sense of how much of our life depends on everyone agreeing on certain baselines of behavior. But it's all made up. And absurd.
Every once in a while, I go back to China, and Southeast Asia, mostly in the hopes of having my ideas stirred around and confused again. That's a huge influence for me. Just to be reminded that the way I view the world isn't the way others view it.
"The Fluted Girl" has become, by virtue of being reprinted in three best-of-the-year anthologies, your most famous story so far, the one readers are most likely to know if they know your name. What was the genesis for that story?It actually started out as the idea for a novel I had and which I then trimmed down, thinking that I'd go back later and write the full version if I ever got time. Originally the focus was more on the feudalism of the society. I'd been watching a lot of music stars and assorted richies buying up land around the town that I grew up in, and their paternalistic "we're going to help out these poor hick locals" attitude, along with the way they injected cash into the local economy, really got me thinking about a new sort of feudalism. People seem to read those feudalistic elements as fantasy, rather than sci-fi, but in my mind, I was trying to reflect a sense that we are moving in a feudal direction with our worship of music and film stars, and their increasing monetary clout. Out here in the rural West, these stars are buying huge ranches and really to my mind, setting up their own little feifs. So that was a lot of what I was thinking about when I first started working on the piece.
At the time, Belari was actually the main character, but by the time I finished polishing the story, I hated it, and I realized the biggest problem with the story was that the fluted girls were actually the most interesting thing in it. So I went back and rewrote the whole thing from scratch, from their perspective. And, as I worked on it, it opened up new ideas for me: the power relationships, the subservience and dominance, the hunt for self-realization, all that really came to life for me. I'm glad I forced myself to go back and tear up the first version of the story, because "The Fluted Girl" was better because of it, but it was scary and depressing to do, at the time.
Some of this is hindsight, too. Even when I finished the rewritten version, I still thought it was crap. I sent it to Gordon Van Gelder at F&SF and I spent the next month waiting for an insulting rejection. I was really embarrassed about it, because it felt like such a demented little piece, and I didn't think anyone would care for it. If Gordon hadn't taken it, I doubt I would have had the guts to send it out to a second market. I'd already given up on it, and only really sent it out because I try to make rules for myself about finishing stories and submitting them so that I won't chicken out. That's actually a problem I have with a lot of my writing: by the time I finish a story, I'm pretty certain its dumb, it's been done before, its obvious, its derivative, its boring. Then I force myself to send it in and find out if I'm right.
Have you ever had the opposite experience with a story: believing what you've written to be interesting and not being able to find anyone interested in it?Not really. I've written a couple sub-par short stories, but I hated them just like I hate everything else when I finish writing, so it wasn't really a surprise when they got rejected. More of a feeling like, "Oh. I guess it really did suck. Bummer. I should work on that." With the really good editors, they sometimes take the time to point out some possibilities of why the story went wrong, but I've never had anything rejected because it was uninteresting. With my novels, I've sometimes felt that I had good material and that it wasn't being appreciated, but I never really got the feeling from the editor's rejections that I hadn't written good stuff, just that I hadn't written stuff that was a good monetary risk. The rejections ran more along the lines of "great writing, great story, I can't buy this, it's way too dark." Stuff like that. With short stories, I get the impression that editors evaluate stories more for their quality. With novels, it seems like it all comes down to the cash potential. How many units can we sell? How much for each unit?
With "The People of Sand and Slag" and "The Pasho", I felt like you were creating stories that not only worked well on their own terms, but that had a hard-to-pin-down, nearly-allegorical relationship with contemporary events and trends (political, environmental). Am I imposing my own inclinations on stories that are really just stories, nothing more?I feel a little weird talking about this in some ways, because I don't like my politics to get in the way of my stories, but more and more I feel like I'm influenced by larger ideas that I'm wrestling with, and it's interesting to me to find ways to use fiction to gnaw away at those ideas-- political, social, environmental, what have you. The trick, in my mind, is to tell a compelling story that maybe carries an idea, but doesn't leave anyone with that awful "I've just been preached at" feeling. In large part, that means to me that I try hard to make things more complex, less clearcut, less explicitly confident of the conclusions, even if that means obscuring some of what I really wish people would take away from the story. At the end of the day, I feel like the story has to hold its own as escape, as entertainment, and then, if I can manage it, as a food for thought. I don't really know if I succeed at that, but that's what's on my mind when I sit down to work with an idea.
With "Sand and Slag", I had a beef with an old boss of mine, and his absolute belief that science would solve all our problems into the future. It's not a new belief, but we got into an argument about it, and I ended up mulling the question for years. Then, finally, this story about the Butte dog showed up and the pieces started to come together -- that I could make my argument by giving my boss' assumption free reign: Yes, we can solve every problem with technology. But there's no guarantee that we'll solve the right problem. What I desperately wanted to do was hold up a sign and say "HEY WE'VE ONLY GOT ONE PLANET, LET'S NOT FUCK IT UP" but that would have made a pretty boring story. I hope people ended up both entertained, and came away with something to think about, but I have no idea if it succeeded at that.
With "The Pasho", I'd been thinking a lot about cultural extinction, and the Pasho was my attempt to look at some of that. It came from spending so much time abroad and seeing the "Americanization" of these various places that I was travelling through. China has been interesting to watch over the last ten years as it's gotten progressively more open and leaned more and more toward a market economy. So China is, in some ways, because it's no longer insulated from outside influences, becoming less Chinese. Maybe. Does eating McDonald's take away your Chinese-ness? Does driving a car? Does playing Quake? Does a belief in freedom of the press? This is fertile ground for me, because there aren't any good answers to what we are as a culture, and what makes a culture alive or dead.
Down in southern China there are a bunch of minority cultures who are all dealing with encroachments not just of U.S. consumer culture, but also Han (the dominant cultural group in China) culture. They've got floods of Han tourists coming through, gawking at them, taking pictures, paying them to perform their festivals every day instead of just once a year, sort of theme-parking them to death. And the impacts are pretty acute: the sons don't want to be monks anymore, they just want to ride around on motor bikes, they don't want to wear their culture's traditional dress, etc. etc. It's a mess.
And more than anything, with "The Pasho", I couldn't come out with an answer to these problems. Cultural integrity is important, sure. But so is technology and comfort. So how do these things intertwine? As we interact more and more, it means that the diversity of things, people, viewpoints that makes life so interesting, are blended away. Maybe this didn't matter when we only had small cultural incursions like war. But when culture is globalised -- through media, branding, manufacturing, what have you -- the homogonization is apparent. I'm trying to figure out what my half-Indian kid is going to be like. How much of India is really going to survive the cultural mixing in him?
Do you think that writers have any responsibility, or even ability, to combat cultural homogenization?I don't think we can combat it, really. Even by writing a book and publishing it in several languages on several continents, an author can be part of the phenomenon. And, I'm not even sure that we should try to combat it. Cultural interactions seem like a mixed bag to me. One one side, you learn new things, on another, those new things have the chance of wiping out your old ways. And that's a two-way street for both cultures. Coca-Cola's all over Asia, but at the same time, because of time I've spent over there, I take off my shoes in my own house. Am I more Asian because of this? Or am I a little more civilized because I don't track dirt around my home? These are trivial examples, but they're illustrative. China might not be discussing press freedom if there wasn't an interaction with the outside world. Taking my son as an example, he's not going to speak Hindi very well, and his understanding of Hinduism is probably going to be an outsider's view, but, on the other hand, he also isn't going to treat women the way they're treated in India. Cultural change and influence and homogenization are all extremely complex in my mind. What's interesting to me as a writer, in this particular case, is to look more critically at this phonemenon which is more and more pervasive, and which we also often seem to take for granted.