I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways.

I write two hours in the morning and two hours before bed no matter. No matter what. I also write during the day if I have to get something down, but the four hours a day is the one thing in my life I don't fool with.

I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning.

I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer.

Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages.

Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue.

I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways.