We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

It's fine," I repeated. And whatever. It was fine. It had to be.

but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers

But pizza was originally Italian, although, Italian pizza doesn't taste much like this because this pizza is fortified with sodium. Which is a mineral...or a vitamin. All I know is that it's good for you.

Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.

Language buries, but does not resurrect.