In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.

Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.