I like a text that reminds the reader its a text sometimes.

The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen to us, or in front of us. But that's not the same as knowingly lying.

It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.

I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me.

I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music.

I like the fact that second person puts the reader in the story. It makes them, whether they like it or not, complicit in the action.

I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I like it or not.