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

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

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

I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me. I believe in choosing books based on the dust jacket.

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.

I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book, and then making up my own mind.

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