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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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