I've never even done a residency.

It's really hard to write about art in general. But it's exceptionally hard to fictionalize art and make work that isn't a parody, or is something that could withstand critique and exist in the art world as a valuable object, or a true piece.

To this day I still watch tons of horror.

It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public.

There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.

I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From Hollywood noirs to horror movies like The Shining [1980].

I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.