In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.

WWII is something contemporary readers already know a lot about. If our schools are doing their jobs, they know about the invasion of Normandy, the Hitler Youth, the Holocaust, and at least a few of the horrors of the Eastern Front.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.