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

I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.

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

I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.

I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.

Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.