The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."

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

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

By the late 70s conservatism was becoming more corporate on the one hand, more theocratic on the other. In reaction to the 60s, conservatism was more about order than freedom, more about conformity than singularity.

In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up.

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.

The form is always integral to the expression of the theme or to the sheer telling of the story, and sometimes the right form is apparent to me from the outset and sometimes it isn't.