This May Be The Curse

I'm A Novelist. Fortunately I Don't Have To Rule The World.

I Stand With Charlie Hebdo, As We All Must, To Defend The Art Of Satire.

I Don't Know What To Say About Literary Critics. I Think It's Probably Best To Say Nothing.

Chekhov Is This Poet Of Melancholy And Isolation And Of Wishing You Were Somewhere Else Than Where You Are.

Out-of-step Intellectuals Like Noam Chomsky And The Deceased Edward Said Have Often Been Dismissed As Crazy Extremists, 'anti-american,' And In Mr. Said's Case Even, Absurdly, As Apologists For Palestinian 'terrorism.'