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Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be... →
I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary... →
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.
The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the... →
A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that... →
I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have... →
I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I was the kind of... →
I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone... →
For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually... →
I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back... →
I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or... →
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