Silence is the easiest thing to market.
Dinaw Mengestu – How to Read the Air
Marketing silence
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Books based on imaginary events, people, and places.
Silence is the easiest thing to market.
Dinaw Mengestu – How to Read the Air
Memory is a strange thing, it doesn’t work like I thought it did.
Dinaw Mengestu – How to Read the Air
Sometimes making up lost stories is part of your job.
Dinaw Mengestu – How to Read the Air
The road has a logic that does not adhere to straight lines.
Dinaw Mengestu – How to Read the Air
We invent as much as we remember.
Dinaw Mengestu – How to Read the Air
A lie, after all, is a form of storytelling.
Dinaw Mengestu – How to Read the Air
Every map is open to revision and every interpretation is subject to error.
Dinaw Mengestu – How to Read the Air
One’s life is nothing more than the slow accumulation of days.
Dinaw Mengestu – How to Read the Air
There is no such thing as a single unalterable path.
Dinaw Mengestu – How to Read the Air
We all have an innate desire to be remembered.
Dinaw Mengestu – How to Read the Air