I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes audience communicate essay
When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that's essentially what it is. Chris Abani afikpocountryessentially share on social
My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English. Chris Abani 50senglishfeisty Change image and share on social
If I don't get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh. Chris Abani feeljunkmail Change image and share on social
I'll be writing essays long after I've stopped writing fiction. There is this unusually broad range in the non-fiction, but if you look at what I'm capable of as a novelist, I'm more limited. Geoff Dyer broadcapableessay Change image and share on social
Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films. Ozwald Boateng collectioncommunicatecreate Change image and share on social
Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them. Kerry Greenwood audiencedetectiveeducate Change image and share on social