I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.

Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.

Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

I can be glib and truthful all at once.

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.