Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.

I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because we don't model this discourse at the dinner table and at Thanksgiving, we don't know how to do it well and we're not teaching our children about the world and about how to discuss it.

My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.