Bad beginnings, bad endings..
Money doesn't make u happy .. But happy makes you money..
I love a woman who can out-eat me..
I have not been briefed..
Without someone telling you what you are doing is wrong, you can't say what you are doing is right..
Success is best when its shared.
When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living..
Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really qu….
The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and you have an amazing vantage point from which to ob….
Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty g….
Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contempo….
I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly ….
American Morons is the work of an original. Like Hitchcock or Ramsey Campbell, the style is precise, alert, and well-mannered, inviting us to enter H….
The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fictio….
I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was twelve ….
Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestu….
I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that a….
When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..
It is hidden but always present..
And yet, she knew she could be..
You will never find a better friend to the United States than Australia..