The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

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.

I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it's really serious.

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

My medium is prose, not the novel.

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

Anything processed by memory is fiction.