The Greatest Thing About Form

Here's The Thing: You Rescue Us Every Day In Small, Quiet Ways, So Why Not In This Way? Let Us Into Your Mystery, Tell Us How You Would Like To Be Loved, Show Us How To See You, Really See You.

My Mom Taught Me To Read When I Was Two Or Three. When I Was Five I Read And Wrote Well Enough To Do My Nine-year Older Brother's Homework In Exchange For Chocolate Or Cigarettes. By The Time I Was 10, I Was Reading Orwell, Tolstoy's War And Peace, And The Koran. I Was Reading Comic Books Too.

I Think That Most Writers Who Are Trying To Write Important And Difficult Books Are In Many Ways Putting Their Own Humanity Into Question. Sometimes The Journey Is Finding Out Where You Stand In Relationship To Your Own Humanity And To The Humanity Of Others.

The Truth Is, Everything We Know About America, Everything Americans Come To Know About Being American, Isn't From The News. I Live There. We Don't Go Home At The End Of The Day And Think, "well, I Really Know Who I Am Now Because The Wall Street Journal Says That The Stock Exchange Closed At This Many Points." What We Know About How To Be Who We Are Comes From Stories. It Comes From The Novels, The Movies, The Fashion Magazines. It Comes From Popular Culture.

Unlike Other Books Or Tv Shows Or Sometimes Life, My Narrative Worlds Are Stripped Of Implicit Moral Centers. There Is Only What You Bring. That Makes The Characters Risky In Every Way And The Narrative, A Journey Of Change For The Reader. But I Make The Journey As Fun As I Can.