We Do. Or Re-create The Ones We

I Think The Great Unspoken Theme In Noir Fiction Is Male Self-pity. It Pervades Noir Movies.

And The Only Forms Of Socialism In The World That Were Then Getting Results - Malign Ones, As It Was - Were The Fascist And Soviet Republics. Fascism Is A Form Of Socialism - You Rebuild The Country, You Find A Scapegoat, And You Go From There.

I Don't Want To Recover From Writing This Book [the Onion]. I Feel Very Poised. I Feel Like I'm With My Mother For The First Time Ever. I Feel Like I've Confronted Her, And The Confrontation Goes On.

I Don't Think I Came Out Of Anybody. I Think I Developed Out Of The Influences I Described In My Dark Places. American History, L.a. Of The 1950s. I'm Comfortable With That.

If I Wanted To Make Money I Would Have Written Another Novel.