Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.

The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.