I Had Wanted To Write Ghost Country

The Rich Are Different Than You And Me: They Have More Money And They Have More Power.

Organizer Is Kind Of A Grand Term For What I Was Doing.

Rule Number Something Or Other -- Never Tell Anybody Anything Unless You're Going To Get Something Better In Return.

I Spent 10 Years As A Marketing Manager. I've Found My Experience In The Financial World Invaluable Background For Writing About White-collar Crimes.

I Had A Fantasy As A Child That I Might Be A Writer Someday. I Always Thought That Meant You Went To New York Or Paris. But After That Intense Summer, I Never Thought That I Wanted To Live Any Place But Chicago. It Also Made Me See What The Stakes Were In The Civil Rights Movement. And It Made Me See What Real Hatred Was Like And The Forms That It Took. But It Also Made Me Understand How Powerless Ordinary People Feel In Their Lives.