'Something To Hang Onto'

An interesting ~ and way too short ~ interview with Qais Akbar Omar, the author of A Fort of Nine Towers. It's the story of his family's life in Kabul under the Taliban. Writing it was a form of therapy for him, Omar says. Even after the Taliban left in 2001, he had nightmares, so one day, "I sat in my bedroom, started writing, and couldn’t stop for two months": http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2013/06/qa-qais-akbar-omar