We Hated Pretentiousness; It Was A Form

When I Came To America, I Was Already A Writer, Already Published In Bosnia. I Was Planning To Go Back, But I Had No Choice But To Stay Here After The Civil War, So I Enrolled At Northwestern In A Master's Program And Studied American Literature.

What Fiction And Art Can Do, Particularly Narrative Art, Is Construct Consciousness - In A Sense, We Have To Do It For The First Time, Every Time.

The More You Lose, The More Is To Be Lost, Yet It Matters Less.

I Cannot Think Of A Country In Which I Would Be Happy With The Government And Dominant Ideology And Available Propaganda.

There Has To Be A Kind Of Grassroots Push, A Movement, As It Were, Against The Inherent Isolationism Of American Capitalism As Practiced In The Publishing Industry. There Need To Be Grants And Government Support And A Few Publishers, Mainstream And Independent, Who Are Not Afraid To Challenge American Readership. We Need To Build A Network Of Translators, Publishers And Readers. We Hope That Our Annual Anthology Might Provide An Upsurge In Interest For European Fiction And Then, As We Publish It Every Year, Become A Habit To Many Readers.