No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already..

In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pu….

Those who are apparently absent can feel more present than the people right in front of you..

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book..

This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak..

Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the ….

It could not always be love in the afternoon and passion in the night, gifts given, notes written, meals fed to each other. It can't all be like that..

The gap between the inner and outer self is one I've found interesting, even essential, about the way we move through the world. In The Delivery Room….