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

I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

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

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

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'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.