a dream is only a memory of the future

a dream is only a memory of the future

These days in particular it seems not only unavoidable but even irresponsible to not acknowledge politics in some way.

One of the reasons I'm not so keen on people calling me an "experimental" writer is that it suggests the work is about the experiment, when it's always the opposite - any "experimentation" is dictated by the material.

The last thing I want is that sense of artifice - rather I want the reader drawn into the story and lost in it and vested in it. So the emotional connection is everything, albeit a connection on my terms.

While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony serves as a retreat from an emotional engagement that you're overly concerned is uncool, that's a failure of nerve.

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.