For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you’re alive?

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

I am a documentarian of what I do.

News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all