Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the authority to say I'm a writer and to actually write more things! It legitimized the activity.

Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.

Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink