We, As Writers, Have To Figure Out

For A Fight To Be Productive, Or At Least Relevant, Writers Should Fight Over Different Demands They Put Upon Writing (as An Individual, Private Act) And Literature (a Network Of Relations In Which We Are All Involved).

What I Was Interested In Is The Lens Organizing My Sovereign Space. I Avoid The Term Outsider And Also Exile For The Same Reason. Outsider Implies A Kind Of Nobility.

I Know A Lot Of People In The City, At All Levels, Horizontally And Vertically - And That To Me Is A Privilege, To Me As A Person But Also A Writer. I've Dined With Billionaires, And I Play Soccer With Busboys.

Everyone Operates Within Their Own Domain And Obviously Those Domains Overlap To A Great Extent.

The Incessant Perpetuation Of Collective Fantasies Makes People Crave The Truth And Nothing But The Truth - Reality Is The Fastest American Commodity.