Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.

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

You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.

Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.

Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or suspecting that they did. The Alternative Hero is a weirdly compelling portrait of fanatic fandom which reads like High Fidelity at high volume.

I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.