God Howls With Laughter At Earthly Plans,

I Am Excited By... The New Novel By Samantha Hunt. She's A Writer I Really Admire A Lot.

I Suppose That The Sympathetic/unsympathetic Debate About Characters Sometimes Feels To Me Like A Misstatement Of Purpose. I Always Think Of Truly Complex Characters Are Falling Between The Cracks In That Debate.

Genre Is A Bookstore Problem, Not A Literary Problem.

The Ice Storm, Because Of The Movie, Has Had, Or Is To Have, A Vigorous Life In Other Cultures.

Impotence, Fetishism, Bisexuality, And Bondage Are All Facts Of Life, And Our Fiction Should Reflect That.