There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out.
Leigh NewmanAfter the age of seven, I began living between my dad in Alaska and my mother in Baltimore. Every three or four months, I would fly the 5,000 miles between the two. And having grown up in Alaska, Baltimore was astonishing.
Leigh NewmanMy natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to compress for speed.
Leigh NewmanEven as my family fell apart and things were at their most hopeless, my dad and I found a lot of happiness in the wilderness - sleeping on the cold gravel and killing as many things as we could get our hands on. Even as my mom got progressively more crazy, we found a happiness, in flashes.
Leigh Newman