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.

My teaching career started with me teaching comp at a very small school in Buffalo. And I was terrible at that point. They never should have hired me.

There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling of a memory influences another person's account of that same experience.

You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yourself - that you made it up.

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.

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