Occupation: Author Birth: May 25, 1967
My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I ….
You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser..
Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food..
The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets..
Ive tried to avoid labels, but they always find you..
It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recogniz….
Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish ….
The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand herbs, made from altars….
There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how ….
My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner..
Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them..
I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or….
My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted..
And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it..
In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably be….
I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?.
New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun..
Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything..
If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you shoul….
In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I'….
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book..