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Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are... →
I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that... →
The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you... →
I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can... →
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction... →
Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally... →
I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.