I Love This Idea Of The Body

My Husband Is Always Accusing Me Of Being A Context-free Individual. He Asks Something And He Has No Idea Where It Came From Or What It Related To. I Have To Supply Him With Way More Supplementary Information Than I Ever Have To Supply My Female Friends.

Our Cover Has Always Been Really Important. For Those Of You Who Haven’t Seen Itcharles Burns, Who Is A Graphic Artist, Does Four Portraits, So It’s Split Into Quadrants And There’s Four Heads, Basically—portraits Of People. We’ve Actually Often Thought And Freaked Out, What If Something Happened To Charles Burns? Because He’s So Identified With The Cover Of Our Magazine, I Don’t Know What We Would Do If Anything Happened To Charles Burns.

If I'd Done The Discovery Before I Wrote The Book, Then There Would Be Nothing To Discover. It Would Feel Dutiful Instead Of Exciting.

A White Girl Disappears From A White Prep School In A White Suburb. Nobody Knows What Happened To Her. The Overall Whiteness Of The World Is Threatened. This Must Be Resolved By Whatever Means Possible.

I Guess What I Find So Interesting About Memory, And Its Role In A Person's Identity, Is How The Attempt To Achieve Accuracy Requires You To Remove Yourself From Your Life In An Authorial Manner.