There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.

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

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

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

Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.

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

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