There's A Hazardous Sadness To The First

Fiction Is A Particularly Effective Way For Strangers To Connect Across Time And Distance

Even In An Intensely Mediated World, In A World That Offers At Least The Illusion Of Radical Self-invention And Radical Freedom Of Choice, I As A Novelist Am Drawn To The Things You Can't Get Away From. Because Much Of The Promise Of Radical Self-invention, Of Defining Yourself Through This Marvelous Freedom Of Choice, It's Just A Lie. It's A Lie That We All Buy Into, Because It Helps The Economy Run.

It Was A Way Of Recognizing Places Of Enchantment: People Falling Asleep Like This.

It Took Hours To Turn The Clock Back 30 Seconds.

I Used To Think It Was Hard To Write, And I Still Find The Process More Or Less Unpleasant, But If I Know What I'm Doing It Rattles Along, Then The Rewrite Whips It Into Shape Rather Quickly.