God Howls With Laughter At Earthly Plans,

I Am Excited By... The New Novel By Samantha Hunt. She's A Writer I Really Admire A Lot.

Tangled In One Another's Arms And Nine Times Out Of Ten The Things You Think About A Person Make It Impossible To Touch Them.

But That Incessant Drive To Be Out There In The Literary Universe That Was Important To Me When I Was In My Twenties, Like Going To A Paris Review Party Or Whatever, That Seems Totally Irrelevant Now.

The Past Was So Past It Hurt.

People Tend To Be Scared Of What They Can't See.