You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's..
Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we might see ou….
Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything..
My books are not about different components that fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, it's about creating the space around the components, wh….
Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out of the girl. Before I wrote my firs….
What I am is what I am. Are you what you are - or what?.
Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pa….
I think I've been mildly obsessed with my hair. I don't think I have a hugely adversarial relationship with it. One my essay is about my decision to ….
My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa, so that after ….
America promotes a lot of bad things, you know. Same-sex marriage, for example..
You can't find what you don't go looking for..
We are great mysteries. No matter what we imagine we may know, even for all the facts we might gather, we don't know each other. Never do, probably n….
I've never stopped learning..
In the beginning, everything was even money..
For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to aski….
Listen to presences inside poems..
America was built on her citizens..
I don't really like Nirvana that much. Sorry, promotional people, Universal. I'm more into Mercury Rev, Oasis, Brian Jonestown Massacre..
Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowsh….
I always do things before I go on a case and when I leave a case. I even do that when I'm out on the road..
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them..