There were a lot of beautiful, thin people out there driving nice cars. It was a whole different experience being in L.A.

Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.

There were a lot of beautiful, thin people out there driving nice cars. It was a whole different experience being in L.A.

That was a mistake, I guess, going out to California. They have these things called guidance counselors in high school. They drink a lot of herbal tea.

A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex, and, most important, friendship, which can overcome time, distance, and even death.

Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.

That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and a pile of scrap metal.