13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'

This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.

When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.

I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.

For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.