There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to the event.

We're getting used to reality and fantasy passing into each other. Much of the border between them has been erased.

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

Toronto is hard to capture in a few strokes.

I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever to feel simply functional - at least not for any stretch.

There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to the event.