You write a lot of books; you hope you get better..

I'm not really a mass market writer..

I read very little contemporary anything..

The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and pea….

I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, writt….

I don't inflict horrors on readers..