I married the man I love when the state of California said I could. We made a family through adoption, as New York State said we could. From the outside, our family - two dads, two sons via adoption -… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Lindsay Hatton's novel 'Monterey Bay' so beautifully evokes the landscape of the titular locale, you'll feel transported to Northern California even if you're reading it on the bus on your morning commute. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is some kind… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Fashion has underscored the interchangeability of men for a long time, maybe from the outset. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I've spent many hours of my life browsing in stores. At 21, I admired clothes I couldn't afford. At 30, I bought them. At… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
With respect to parenting, biological age is not, for men, the concern it is for women. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
That's part of fashion's promise: that a girlfriend or boyfriend or a promotion are just one tie or sweater or pair of shoes away. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the experience of… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
When you are young, it's deeply annoying to be told that certain things are a condition of your youth. There's almost always some condescension… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
“One of her most reached-for truisms was that some percentage of jobs were indistinguishable from one another, as they all involved the sending of… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Writing takes gall. I like to think that's true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been doing it… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
