I Judged About A Zillion Awards This

There’s Something Really Rich And Powerful In Not Talking About What You Need To Talk About Sometimes.

Updike Worked This Way, And I Just Kinda Borrowed It From Him. So The Memoir Will Be Relief From Novel Writing For A Moment.

I Have Sparred With Commenters As A Music Writer (on The Rumpus, Among Other Places, See E.g., My Review About Taylor Swift), And That Was Plenty Of Training!

I Am A Better Writer For Having Fewer Demons, And I Am More Curious About The World And The People In It. So Those Of You Thinking You Might Need Your Demons In Order To Be Creative: I Beg To Differ.

I Made This List Of Stuff That It's Time For Me To Try To Do.