Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

I'm a really eclectic reader.

Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this

In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."

What else is there to write about than love and loss?

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.