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This is a very racy novel! I'm curious why you decided to write it. Well, Susan Sontag said something which has always fascinated me. She said that her novels don't exist as ideas in her head. They exist only as they are written. I was just ready to write this book. The gun sort of went off and it fell on the page, almost as if I was channeling...
...very close friends who apparently were very concerned for my reputation. They thought it would ruin me. So I restrained myself from saying, "Oh, goody!" Instead, I said that the only thing that would ever give me pause would be to have a work published that was badly written...
...Thank you for the fair and well-written article "The Storm Over the Mormons." Over the years, as I have made decisions on which newsmagazine to subscribe to, I have always come back to the consistently objective and informative reporting in TIME. Eileen Nagle, Springville, Utah...
...Loathing Many Uighurs complain that they have become second-class citizens in their own homeland. Government authorities limit the numbers of Muslim Uighurs allowed to go on pilgrimage to Mecca and handpick clerics to deliver politically approved sermons at Friday prayers. Teaching of the Uighur language, which is written in the Arabic script, has been curbed so that Uighurs can more easily assimilate into the wider Chinese society. Yet Uighurs say that they are discriminated against by Chinese companies that operate in Xinjiang. They face restrictions on their travel abroad and even within China itself; repeated stories in the media...
Many Uighurs complain that they have become second-class citizens in their own homeland. Government authorities limit the number allowed to go on pilgrimage to Mecca. Teaching of the Uighur language, written in the Arabic script, has been curbed, and Uighurs face restrictions on their travel. "The Uighurs are the very bottom of the heap economically in China," says Dru Gladney, an expert on Xinjiang at Pomona College in California...