I LOVE A BROAD MARGIN TO MY LIFE, by Maxine Hong Kingston (Vintage International, $15).
Maxine Hong Kingston talks to David L. Ulin about her new memoir, "I Love a Broad Margin to My Life".
But there might have been something uplifting about slowing down, about permitting "a broad margin of leisure," as Thoreau said.
While nearly half of voters said it went too far, they still voted for Mr. Romney by a broad margin.
In July, the House of Representatives approved, by a broad margin, a bill that would make any type of cloning, including so-called therapeutic cloning for research, a crime.
The title of West Coast writer Maxine Hong Kingston's I Love a Broad Margin to My Life was borrowed from a line by Henry David Thoreau.
Mr. Hynes spoke of his surprising decision to reverse himself and run again against Kenneth P. Thompson, who had beaten him by a broad margin in the Democratic primary.
January 31 2011 The writers Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko read from their respective new memoirs, "I Love a Broad Margin to My Life," and "The Turquoise Ledge".
And through the first few pages of "I Love a Broad Margin to My Life," it seems Kingston has been doing exactly that.
However, he passes over a very practical motive: he wanted to be a writer and, like many another of like ambition, needed privacy, quiet, and a "broad margin" where his mind could roam.
