I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

At a certain age just being around particular people is an event.

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

The VW doesn’t make you think of Hitler and genocide. It’s a breast on wheels, a puffy little dream.

I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.

Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none of which have the kind of directly causal reasoning you cite.