I'm not the guy to ask about the most up to date stuff.

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

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 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.

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.