What I wound up doing, which I think is really journalistically dubious, is changing the order of some of the things I did, so that the things I ended up struggling with the most wind up being two-thirds of the way in.

I've gotten thicker skin mostly from being older. You just stop caring quite as much about everything.

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

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.

Basically, I wake up, take care of my son for a little while, and then like, "I am gonna write!" And then I wind up.

I can't imagine deer hunting. I used to think I couldn't imagine deer hunting because killing a deer seemed so awful. But now I think about just sitting in a tree and doing nothing all day and probably not even seeing a deer. Not moving and sitting in a tree? That seems rough.

With a Q&A, you need obviously to keep it snappy.