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

The fun thing about journalism is if you go do a story about something, you can now ask three intelligent questions about it. Or say three intelligent things. And that gets people talking.

You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book.

I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.

I don't read "letters" sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.

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

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.