eventually wrote about it in her book but i told her that sex is an integral part of existence as a human being it is very important in this new novel tooyour books are slim and taut not baggy monsters like those by say jonathan franzen and vikram chandra do you have any model in mind yes its a conscious attempt to write short novels these are like a gateway drug to literary fiction especially for those who do not like to read literary fiction they are finished before the reader realizes he is reading literary fiction another reason is that im a slow writerif you could meet barack obama what would you like to discuss with him about the us and pakistan i would be very curious to know about his pakistani roommate during his college days at columbia im sure he knows what he does and there is always a certain political pressure on the us president but i think he has been much more enamoured of drone warfare than i would have hopedafter a critical newspaper article about your selfpromoting tweets have you become more conscious about what you tweet i dont tweet much sometimes once a week sometimes once a month when i tweet something about reviews and readings the idea is to tell people to please read the book i always delete monthlong posts as i feel odd about a company owning my content for me there is a certain kind of lack of generosity on social media i personally dont like to say negative things about people but in the online space as people are removed from actual physical conversation there is a certain mob mentality and vindictiveness and when i encounter that i remind myself that i dont have to be a part of a mob