I really wanted to get out of that cycle in our family where somebody's taking revenge on somebody for some slight that happened thirty years ago, an….

My story follows a very classic tragic paradigm in which you learn things too late for them to be of any use, and by keeping silent about the thing t….

I keep thinking my father gave me Turgenev, and then I realize at some point, Oh, this is a false memory. I mean, that's one of the things that inter….

There are people who are very good at disconnecting themselves and becoming other people, and separating from their family lives and going on. They c….

The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society, and also ….

Comedy has traditionally been about fear of embarrassment..

Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available..

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My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange tree….

There is something to be said for the openness to form, and literary form because it forces you to actually think about the other person, and their m….