When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book in another language is almost the work of two people. And that is quite interesting to me.

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.

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

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

Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.

Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful cadences and bleak, joyful wit are all his own.

You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?