I turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.

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

There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue.

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!

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

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

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.