When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things—as opposed to making things ….

I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to b….

What I'm really interested in, as a reader and as a writer, is the idea of the nonfiction book that is not defined by its content, by its "about"-nes….

The only distinction I'd make is between film and telly, I guess. "Film," "movies," and "cinema" are all synonyms as far as I'm concerned; but telly ….