Popular Culture Is Inescapable In The U.s.

The Question Of Dying Becomes A Wise Reminder. It Cures Us Of Our Innocence Of The Future.

Naturally A Direct Comparison Of Terrorist And Novelist Is Complete Nonsense. But There Was Once A Time When The Novelist Also Had Some Influence On How His Contemporaries Thought, The Way They Saw The World, The Way They Lived.

To Portray America Over The Past Twenty Years Or So, I Would Think Immediately Of Football, Probably The Super Bowl In Its Sumptuous Suggestion Of A National Death Wish.

Everyone Who Does Not Live In Berlin Lives In Brooklyn Now.

American Writers Ought To Stand And Live In The Margins, And Be More Dangerous.