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You need not to know much about Heaven-it is where Christ is, and that is Heaven enough for us.

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Amy Waldman

So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9
11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

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As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.

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As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.

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And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, but it's much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities.

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My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.

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Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the American economy since, ought to have eased her worries about failing to climb as high as she believed she deserved. But the money was his, not theirs. The unspoken power this gave him kept her from asking: Why don't you stay home?

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