Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

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

Capitalism, in the realm of sexuality, I figure, thinks that we behave in specific ways, like a breast is always going to produce a hard-on for some product, whereas the truth is that sexuality is always a continuum, which can be characterized by reversals.

I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot.

I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace as a human being. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that the literary product is any good.

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training!