There's an invisible army of woman and men who really don't get why we give so much of ourselves to football. And they need to SPEAK UP.

Just imagine what would happen if Obama grew a pair and in his last year in office just said, "Forget it. Football is just too violent and too damaging to the economically vulnerable communities in this country. And it normalizes violence and fosters intolerance, etc." I mean: that would be awesome.

The truth is, every sport has been turned into a huge, nihilistic business.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

Authors should be as involved with the marketing of their books as they want to be. No more, no less. I happen to recognized, quite early on, that no one was going to buy my book if I didn't do everything I could to let them know that the book existed.

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.

Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.