When I'm drafting, I suppose it's an intuitive process - figuring out when something just has a surreal glaze on it and when it grapples with something that could threaten a character's day-to-day reality.

The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly.

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.