TW Interview by Lorraine Berry
Just by being working class, I’m a minority in the industry, and then to be a woman on top of that is absolutely nuts.
Just by being working class, I’m a minority in the industry, and then to be a woman on top of that is absolutely nuts.
I think he stumbled on telling the truth to save his own life—and it worked.
All a writer really has is time. Time to think. Time to read. Time to write.
The nice thing about literary fiction is that it can be anything it wants.
I think the mistake people make is that they don’t see that the inner life and the outer life are two different things.
The whole online world drives me nuts. I hate the pressure of feeling like I need to go on Facebook and be witty."
The farther we get from the past, the less we have a dog in the fight, the more the real past starts to emerge.
A thousand of your competitors are writing about life in New York. Who's competing with you to write about life in your town?
We all move through the world collecting experiences we can’t shrug off.
I love to write about topics that other people would prefer to forget about—or whitewash.