“I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.”

“Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.”