I had a teacher once who said, "If you are going to write fiction, you should only read poetry." I have always been interested in the writers who car….

You could touch for a couple of bucks. The window of the booth went up and you stuck out the bills. They might tell you not to pinch, but I was a str….

The bullshit never ends. That’s the main thing to remember. It never ends..

I am a writer who is definitely working with a specific language and more than English, that language is American. And I work very much in idiom and ….

Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural..

I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy..

I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me..

This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them..

Stuff me in a tutu and let's screen experimental videos all day..

I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on the energy tides….

I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine..

One of my big revelations was that nobody cares whether you write your novel or not. They want you to be happy. Your parents want you to have health ….

No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from the inside..

There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction..

Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake..

Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is the book he was born to wr….

Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and feeling, and she gets lif….

Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that America and the ….

When you work at home, fellow alums, discipline is the supreme virtue. Suicidal self-loathing lurks behind every coffee break. Activities must be exp….

Everything's weird if you stare at it..

When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book in another language is almost the w….