I think Stephen Crane too becomes trapped in a myth that poetry should be operating at a certain level, that there's the real world and the reflectio….

If you're reading a book that I've written in the first person, without named characters, you will periodically perhaps as a reader remind yourself: ….

As a gay writer and someone who began by writing autobiographical fiction, it's hard to get away from chatter of "You're just a narcissist," "You're ….

I'm always writing a new book even when books are being shopped around, and none of my books has been published in the order that they have been writ….

William Faulkner was the master of what one must do to be serious. But I don't understand why people haven't moved forward from that, why that's not ….

I can start with the idea of taking until you can take off, through the idea that all of my writing foregrounds the idea of how I'm taking from my ow….

I'm writing as I'm reading. I'm constantly already engaged in dialogue with the critics. None of these are my ideas solely. They are my form of enter….

I say sometimes that I'm a poet but I work in the novel form. That's what I do. That's what makes sense to me. I think of myself as someone who makes….