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'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

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

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.

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.

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