Katherine Boo

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

I'm not squeamish.

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.