I Always Think It's Useful To Get

Our Cover Has Always Been Really Important. For Those Of You Who Haven’t Seen Itcharles Burns, Who Is A Graphic Artist, Does Four Portraits, So It’s Split Into Quadrants And There’s Four Heads, Basically—portraits Of People. We’ve Actually Often Thought And Freaked Out, What If Something Happened To Charles Burns? Because He’s So Identified With The Cover Of Our Magazine, I Don’t Know What We Would Do If Anything Happened To Charles Burns.

I Go Through Life Now Reminding Myself To Remember Something, And I Do This While That Something Is Happening. I'll Be Experiencing A Moment And I'll Say To Myself, "remember This!" Otherwise My Whole Life Just Blurs By.

If I'd Done The Discovery Before I Wrote The Book, Then There Would Be Nothing To Discover. It Would Feel Dutiful Instead Of Exciting.

I Obviously Read And Adore Traditional Fiction. I Teach Traditional Fiction; I Also Teach All Kinds Of Not-so-traditional Fiction.

I Love This Idea Of The Body As A Trauma Archive!