Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connections, and sharing are. Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways to recall, annotate, personalize, edit, authenticate, display, mark, transfer, and engage a work. Art is a conversation, not a patent office. The citation of sources belongs to the realms of journalism and scholarship, not art. Reality can’t be copyrighted.

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

You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.

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

My medium is prose, not the novel.

Genre is a minimum security prison.

The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.