Reading Mission To Paris Is Like Sipping

I Was Born With The Devil In Me,' [holmes] Wrote. 'i Could Not Help The Fact That I Was A Murderer, No More Than The Poet Can Help The Inspiration To Sing.

I Started Reading The Big Histories And The Small Histories, The Memoirs And So Forth. At Some Point, I Found The Diary Of William E. Dodd.

His Weakness Was His Belief That Evil Had Boundaries.

I Thought I'd Go To A Bookstore And See What Moved Me.

To Me, Writing Is A Very Physical Process. I Lay Out The Entire Book With The Two Narratives Side By Side On My Bedroom Floor, And Just Get Down On My Hands And Knees And Start Looking At It In That Physical Space. "does This Really Follow From This? Should This Be Here Or Elsewhere?" I Will Literally Cut The Paper Into Paragraphs. I'll Cut It Into Segments And Move The Segments Around From One Narrative To The Other Until I Feel That I've Found The Natural Structure.