When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.

No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.

If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them.

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.