I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

If you sort of see yourself writing into a space that you don't always recognize, you sometimes learn things that you knew, but weren't entirely aware of. It's very liberating for a writer to go into a space where she or he has not gone before, because, instead of being a tourist, you're like an explorer now, and you're sort of lost in this new idea.

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

Sometimes, in life, nothing happens. But, sometimes, nothing happens beautifully.

They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.

It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from.