Reading Mission To Paris Is Like Sipping

The Intermittent Depression That Had Shadowed Him Throughout His Adult Life Was About To Envelop Him Once Again.

Hitler Was Such An Anomalous Character - He Was So Over-the-top Chaotic In His Approach To Statesmanship, His Manner And In The Violence Which Overwhelmed The Country Initially. I Think Diplomats Around The World... Felt Like Something Like That Simply Would Not Be Tolerated By The People Of Germany.

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.

Leaves Hung In The Stillness Like Hands Of The Newly Dead.

No One Cared What St. Louis Thought, Although The City Got A Wink For Pluck.