Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemonis a Bosnian-born American fiction writer, essayist, and critic. His best known novels are Nowhere Manand The Lazarus Project...
NationalityBosniak
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 September 1964
world nobody-likes-me like-me
I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.
book reading logic
There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.
sometimes far-away
Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.
laziness domain familiar
Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.
memories
Memory narrativises itself.
self talking pity
Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
hands doe
Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.
soccer writing six
I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.
reality people fantasy
The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.
games redemption path
I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.
country america people
I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than 24 hours - but I knew I would never get inside there. And 'there' not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country.
spring tree world
The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.
writing long retreat
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
new-york stars suicidal
New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.