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

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

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

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 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.

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