An Unjust World Represented As Harmonious Is

One Builds One's Life In Consistency; One Invests It With The Belief, However Unsupported By Reality, That One Has Always Been What One Is Now, That Even In One's Distant Past One Could Recognize The Seed From Which This Doomed Flower Has Bloomed.

To Me There's No Difference Between A Book Of Stories And A Novel - They're Just Slightly Different Shapes.

What Fiction And Art Can Do, Particularly Narrative Art, Is Construct Consciousness - In A Sense, We Have To Do It For The First Time, Every Time.

I'll Take Any Life In Which I Can Make Choices And Have Agency, And America Is Not A Bad Place For All That.

I Write And Read With The Assumption That Literature Contains Knowledge Of Human Experience That Is Not Available Otherwise.