I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.

There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.

My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.

I think people on antidepressants often lose sexual feelings. I don't mean that I think sex is only about sadness; it is obviously about joy and vitality and birth as well.

The past was so past it hurt.

The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first. So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice.

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.