I Am Dismayed To Realize That Much

They Will Be Given As Gifts; Books That Are Especially Pretty Or Visual Will Be Bought As Hard Copies; Books That Are Collectible Will Continue To Be Collected; People With Lots Of Bookshelves Will Keep Stocking Them; And Anyone Who Likes To Make Notes In Books Will Keep Buying Books With Margins To Fill.

I Am Unusually Halloween-attentive, Because, As It Happens, I Was Born On Halloween, So For Me It Has Always Been An Occasion Of Great Moment.

I Remember Three- And Four-week-long Snow Days, And Drifts So Deep A Small Child, Namely Me, Could Get Lost In Them. No Such Winter Exists In The Record, But That's How Ohio Winters Seemed To Me When I Was Little - Silent, Silver, Endless, And Dreamy.

'brave' Is One Of Those Words That Has Been Bleached Of Most Of Its Meaning These Days, Thanks To Far Too Many Appearances In The Glaring Light Of Ad Slogans And Corporate Public Relations. I Never Thought About Anything As Brave Anymore; It Just Seemed Like A Flabby, Glib Cliche.

My Inspiration Is Really Very Simple: I'm Struck By Things That I Want To Know More About. I Really Do React Just As A Curious Person: Who Is This Person? What's The Story Behind This Situation? Why Do People Like This Or Dislike This Thing?