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.
Genre is a minimum security prison.
To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.
Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.
I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.