War and Peace’ holds a strange place in literary history, participating in the crowning of realism as a substantial and serious literary mode in America,
My literary heroes were mostly women writers and thinkers – Joy Williams, Joan Didion, Anne Sexton, June Jordan, Sarah Schulman, Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Christa
Lilliet Berne, La Generale, newly returned to Paris after a year spent away, the Falcon soprano whose voice was so delicate it was rumored she
The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people – and also so pleasurable – make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There’s a
It took me a while to get back to ‘The Queen of the Night.’ I was angry with it as an idea because I felt
I said that I like to write on trains and that I wished Amtrak had residencies for writers.
I knew I wanted the parties in ‘The Queen of the Night’ to be convincing, beautiful, and also dramatic: situations where significant things happened on
The beauty of Maine is such that you can’t really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I’ve moved away, with each
I would stay two years in San Francisco, then move to New York in the summer of 1991, for the love of a man who
I’m not much of a Rick Moody fan, but I want to be a fan for the Rick Moody I thought might appear after his
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