The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out..

I don't like to read or write about life in its tiring entirety. Most days, months, even years are just filler between those few moments of modest bu….

I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don't fall for the first frillily syllabled thing….

I've been within an inch of my life..

There's much too much mismating in the Microsofted phrasery of our day. And I like sentences that are societies unto themselves and shun any need for….

What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life..

If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar..

I was a great many far cries from myself..

It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that what they mean is what's ….

My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occas….

You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth..

Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He….

The narrators get into trouble and make fools of themselves with their perversely impulsive fondlings of the language. These people have retreated fr….

I have never felt at ease in language. I did not grow up among books or among people who read them. I heard words emerge from mouths but didn't get t….

Kim Chinquee writes with remarkable heart and grace. Her wise capsulizings of love's devastations and of life's roil and disappointments come at you ….

Then came nights when, lying awake beside my final wife, I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I was wearing the finger ou….

If I believe in anything when it comes to writing, and I can't stress enough that I detest writing, it's something that sticks with me not from any E….

I learned to read but not to comprehend, and that might well have stood me in good stead, because what's there to understand, really? Everything I la….

Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up..

Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized..