I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things.

You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.

I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things.

Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.

I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.