Paris Is A Wonderful City. I Can't

My Mother Was Told She Couldn't Go To Medical School Because She Was A Woman And A Jew. So She Became A Teacher In The New York City Public School System.

I Started To Send My Work To Journals When I Was 26, Which Was Just A Question Of When I Got The Courage Up. They Were Mostly Journals I Had Been Reading For The Previous Six Or Seven Years.

I Worked At All Kinds Of Jobs, Mostly Commercial Editing.

I Think There Is Something About Coming To A City To Work That Puts You In Touch With It In A Different Way.

I'm Alternatingly Brilliant And Witless-and Sleepless: Bed Is Just A Swamp To Roll In.