The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

While we were walking around, we came to the Catholic church, and we saw that some people had set fire to carpets and banked them around the rectory, which was made out of wood. They knew every fire truck on the South Side was going to be in the park, that the rectory would just burn to the ground. Our one little act was putting out that fire.

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.