Anything can happen: anything. Or nothing. Who can say? The world, monstrous, is made that way, and in the end consumes us all. Who am I, administrat….

Julio's Day is a story of one man's life, but it's a great more than that as well. It's the story of the life of a century, also told as if a day. Be….

I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for reading story collections as ….

Any time I put together a story collection, I don't know what it's going to look like overall - or even what the title story is going to be. Over tim….

Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart and sly….

Philosophy does provide me a structure and a way of thinking. Religion - like the religion I grew up with, Mormonism - also provides a way of thinkin….

One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does but hides it much, much mor….

In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into question. Reading like a ….

I'm pretty instinctual when I write, and I really like to get to a point where I'm writing where I don't know what's going to happen next. Usually wh….

There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get caught in it, we find it o….

I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief more….

I don't always know what's going to go on in terms of the mood of the story. Sometimes I start with the mood, but sometimes I just try to work toward….

Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out o….

Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting residue..

When I say I'm instinctive [in writing], I do feel like I need to hide what I'm doing from myself. My mind just needs to be able to operate untrammel….

Truth cannot be imparted, it must be inflicted..