A Short Story Is Something

The World Is Divided Between Kids Who Grow Up Wanting To Be Their Parents And Those Like Us, Who Grow Up Wanting To Be Anything But. Neither Group Ever Succeeds.

One Of The Odd Things About Middle Age, He Concluded, Was The Strange Decisions A Man Discovers He's Made By Not Really Making Them, Like Allowing Friends To Drift Away Through Simple Neglect.

They Stayed, Many Of Them, Because Staying Was Easier And Less Scary Than Leaving.

If There's An Enduring Theme In My Work, It's Probably The Effects Of Class On American Life.

I've Never Written Nearly As Much About Place As People Seem To Think I Do. I Just Write About Class.