As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.
Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.
Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
My audience is going to die before I do.
Warning stickers on books would be a nightmare.
I love my virginity to the apocalypse.
I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966.
Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.
Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.
Does Obama create confusion on purpose?
'The Daily Beast' and Howard Kurtz have parted company.
Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.
everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death
Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.
The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
I have been the victim of heartless malice.
I am a Westerner of Westerners!
Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
