Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.

I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.

No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.

Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and on the page - in relation to each other - are cocooned against my own feelings about what I'm writing until they're loosed in the air and become their own. Then I realize what I may or may not have done.

I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it.