With publicity comes humiliation.

With publicity comes humiliation.

As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like it.

I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn’t know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.

Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need to use the additional energy exerted by sitting up?

On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.

Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own.