"What we see on the street is just the tip of the iceberg. There's an entire world of homelessness that has been rendered invisible."

Here's the YouTube link to my PBS News Weekend interview:

I'd like to understand why Protagonist wants to be with Obviously Bad Idea other than "bar is low."

Note: There is a permanent carve-out for Body Heat, just for the line "You aren't too smart, are you? I like that in a man."

I got The Collected Stories which is four of her books in one. She’s rich enough that I had to pause halfway through or get overwhelmed.

Link?

Glad it worked for you.

I can’t promise captivating on the next one, but horrifying I think we got covered.

I hope we can manage to do both. Both goals are noble.

Not saying you are. Just that I can't 100% know one way or the other. We're on social media, and it's designed to foment anger and division.

White folks have a lot to answer for, and we haven't covered ourselves in glory owning up it.

The devil can quote scripture.

Both are true.

Fair enough. It’s on us to earn the trust.

I mean I’m also not 100% that you aren’t a Russian bot sent to sow racial discord.

It’s just a complex situation all the way ‘round.

Let’s not let our liberal brothers and sisters slip off the hook too quickly either. The unspoken support for exploitable labor is on both sides of the aisle.

People can champion multiculturalism and still want cheap roofers.

In that reading, he *did* save her mother. And showed how he’d moved past some of his blinding grief by doing it.

We understood that movie very differently.

I read it more as motherhood isn’t about blood descent so much as who has actually been present for you in your life, and it resonated for me.