There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.

Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.

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

Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years

I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if I can get them and grab them by the scruff of the neck and say, you can do this, and if I see that fire in their eyes, that's when I think I know a writer.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.