But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if you f****d up….

Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do..

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the messy material conditions of ….

In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted..

Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized s….

The effects of MFA programs, and the rise of creative writing instruction more generally, are far more diffuse than people think. Even if you're a wr….

There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are amusing to you but no one else is g….

I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or at least feel securely, that for the next few months….

For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day..

Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction has perhaps been mo….