The struggle is how to write optimistically when the world we're living in is not inherently optimistic. I love the idea of the family from the most …

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I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's fam…

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You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say.

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Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling with his most primitive …

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Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?

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Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.

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The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable.

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What draws me to family... if I were a psychiatrist, I'd say an enormous amount of unresolved personal material. If I were an anthropologist, I'd say…

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My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don'…

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