I Sort Of Hate The Novel When

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 Published A Bunch Of My Older Books In E-book Format With Open Road, Which Is Great And Has Tons Of Hard To Find Older Books Available There.

The Process Of Composition, Messing Around With Paragraphs And Trying To Make Really Good Prose, Is Hardwired Into My Personality.

I Am In Boston Right Now, In Fact, To Do Work At The New England Historical Genealogical Library, Where I'm Trying To Finish Up Tracing My Lineage Back To The Seventeenth Century.

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.