I'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I'm not very good at that.

I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.

Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.

I can't explain why I don't read comments. Maybe because I worked at Time for so long and they don't have them, so I keep forgetting that they're there.

If you're at my level and you go to a bookstore, even a good turnout is not that many people. Sometimes it is. But for the most part, it's not a huge turnout.

I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.