Getting tired of sitting, staring at my computer screen, day after day, where everyone is two-dimensional, reduced to an avatar photo, status updates, or maybe some carefully curated vacation photos. There's something exhausting about that after a while. I found myself wanting to hear voices.

David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking.

To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.

I can only imagine the quiet horror that people must endure when they meet me in person.

I'm a radio nerd. I've loved radio since I was a kid. I'm a huge Howard Stern fan.

I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about.

Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read a literary biography or a memoir of some kind. And doing so almost always deepens my enjoyment of the author and her work.