My Dream Has Always Been To Suspend

Time Passes, As The Novelist Says. The Single Most Useful Trick Of Fiction For Our Repair And Refreshment: The Defeat Of Time. A Century Of Family Saga And A Ride Up An Escalator Can Take The Same Number Of Pages. Fiction Sets Any Conversion Rate, Then Changes It In A Syllable. The Narrator’s Mother Carries Her Child Up The Stairs And The Reader Follows, For Days. But World War I Passes In A Paragraph. I Needed 125 Pages To Get From Labor Day To Christmas Vacation. In Six More Words, Here’s Spring.

All We Can Ever Do Is Lay A Word In The Hands Of Those Who Have Put One In Ours.

The 'information Novel' Shouldn't Be A Curiosity. It Should Be Absolutely Mainstream.

The Use Of Music Is To Remind Us How Short A Time We Have A Body.

We Will Live With Racism For Ever. But Senses Of Self, Senses Of Belonging, Senses Of Us And Of Others? Those Are Up For Grabs.