Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.