My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

The idea of going down to Central or South American and taking ayahuasca and shitting my pants and puking in a circle of overprivileged white people is not my idea of a good time. That's not going to happen.

Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

I really hate alcohol. I hate it because it's linked so closely to sexual assault in our culture.

The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

If your white privilege and class privilege protects you, then you have an obligation to use that privilege to take stands that work to end the injustice that grants that privilege in the first place.