Let Me Tell You One Thing About

I'm Totally In Control Of This Tiny, Tiny World Right There At The Typewriter.

This Book Is Called "blue Nights" Because At The Time I Began It I Found My Mind Turning Increasingly To Illness, To The End Of Promise, The Dwindling Of The Days,the Inevitability Of The Fading, The Dying Of The Brightness. Blue Nights Are The Opposite Of The Dying Of The Brightness, But They Are Also Its Warning.

Lancaster, California ... That Promised Land Sometimes Called 'the West Coast Of Iowa.

It's Hard To Find A Book That's Safe To Write. Because One Always Goes To Dark Or Difficult Places.

The Future Always Looks Good In The Golden Land, Because No One Remembers The Past.