I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.

Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.

Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.

New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.