I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity.

I wasn't doing much work when I was using and drinking. I have friends who did it (work), but I wasn't one of those people.

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.

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

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

One of the things I love most about second person is that it reminds the reader that they are reading a text. It doesn't allow them to drift into the story and not notice that they are reading a book - a book that has an author.

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.