She's Applying Her Lipstick; I've

Shot At Twenty-seven Times - What A Dominican Number.

The Thoughts He Put In Her Head. Someone Should’ve Arrested Him For It.

I'm Just This Dominican Kid From New Jersey.

I Was In Fact Pretty Much - By The Larger Culture, By The Local Culture, By People Around Me, By People On Tv - Encouraged To Imagine Women As Something Slightly Inferior To Men.

When I Was Working On 'drown' - This Was Way Back In The Mid-'90s - I Had This Idea That I Wanted To Do Another Collected Stories. I Wanted To Do Another Book Like 'drown' That Focused Specifically On Infidelity.