The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.

If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

Ive tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.