The Novel Doesn't Come Into

I Used To Be Fond Of Indian Arm Wrestling.

I Think Henry Miller Has Had Huge Influence Not Because He Wrote About Sex, But Because The Memoir Or The Nonfiction Novel Has Become Such A Monumental Force In American Publishing, If Not In Literature.

Saul Bellow Never Took My Advice When He Was My Friend.

When Somebody Asks Me What I Do, I Don't Think I'd Say Critic. I Say Writer.

I Think The Pattern Of My Essays Is, A Funny Thing Happened To Me On My Way Through Finnegans Wake.