Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)

There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.

Mine is not an autonomous imagination.

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art or music irrelevant. In fact, I think that literature and art help us to understand - sometimes they provide narratives and metaphors for understanding history, for understanding recent catastrophes.