Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake.

This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.

Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that America and the novel are dead, I hope we can have more great American novels as alive as this one.

I am a writer who is definitely working with a specific language and more than English, that language is American. And I work very much in idiom and am very interested in the play of different kinds of rhetoric, whether it is the more high-flown stuff that reeks of age. I love to juxtapose something like that with something more current or urgent. I am always interested not in America by itself, but America as an idea and how that idea has changed over time, in the eyes of the rest of the world and in the eyes of Americans.

Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake.

I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me.

Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know.