Occupation: Author Birth: 1962
The Sellout is about friends and relatives who have touched me in real ways..
I try to be accommodating, but I'm pretty much a loner..
There are always so many things happening [to us] at one time. We read Isherwood's A Single Man in class, and we had to ask: How is he talking about ….
There are things I don't like, like sitting at the head of the class. It makes me uncomfortable. I'll do it in a seminar if I have to, but with a wor….
I'm not searching for the truth.That's too much pressure ..
It's weird because there is progress somehow. But there's so much that just feels the same. How important is that rank? How important is it that I am….
I think, and a lot of that has to do with where I grew up in California; [status] isn't something I think about that much..
There's this line between propriety and how we really speak and how we really think. And I'm just trying to have fun with that stuff..
Well, it's not all the same, but there are a lot of parallels. I'm not sure how to answer [on psychology background], but I think when I was studying….
I'm healthier in California, probably a little happier, maybe..
Why are the mainstream buzz things rarely contemporary? It doesn't happen very often. It's hard to feel culpable or implicated or even apathetic..
I've also never written anything really in LA..
The anger and fear are so global. And of course, we live where we live and there's a hierarchy to who is worth what. It's been going on for a long, l….
I forget how beautiful and calm California is. It's not so much about the place, but also the age that I came to the place and, well, other things. N….
Sometimes I highjack memories. Sometimes I switch them around. Sometimes they're just in the background, like some little bass note. Those things hav….
I think there's nothing new going on. Except that, you're even more public than you've ever been.There's some good and some bad to that..
I think everybody focuses on race, but it's about a ton of things, and I just see these things as all interrelated and all interwoven in a weird way..
In White Boy Shuffle, I combined my seventh-grade teacher, Mr. Takemoto, who really saved me - I don't think I've ever told anyone this - and my firs….
If I'm in LA, I'm close to home, and that just brings up all these other things, good and bad. There is a reason why I am not there. That's what I ha….
I had a student once come up to me and we were talking about this incident, and, of course, I never had the right thing to say. But later on, I reali….
My dad fought in Korea. It was one of the first stories I remember hearing about..