The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness.

Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the world comes into someone's head.

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult.

Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.

Even while I was working on the novel I would also write short stories as relief, just to be in a wieldier world that could negotiated more easily and more quickly. In the novel, I even changed the narrator from a man to a woman.

For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them.

Portland is a pretty magnificent place to live.