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 moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

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.

Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes "good" from "bad" luck.

I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do. So, it's usually not too, too hard.

I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.