I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles.

I'm never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile.

Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about.

But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be.

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.