There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue.

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.

The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first. So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice.

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.

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

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

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