I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

Sadness is simply something to be treated with antidepressant meds and otherwise need not be spoken of.

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book, and then making up my own mind.

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