The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.

Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.