An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

I was once told by a very well-respected editor, "Category horror is about good vs. evil, that's all it is." And I thought, "That's why it's no good. That's why I find that stuff unreadable." One is looking for something that's a little more emotionally complex and nuanced.

With American Morons, Glen Hirshberg confidently shoulders his way through the generational pack to claim his rightful place on the summit. These stories are smart, challenging, ripe with feeling, expansive in every way: Horror as it should be writ, and as only the best and most expressive can write it.

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I was doing, and although it was published, it is, after all this time, kind of an embarrassment.

Wolf! Right here and now!

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.