Some Thoughts on My Downton Abbey Obsession (and Yours) As We Wait Between Seasons 2 and 3
July 29th, 2012
On America's crisis of Democracy
July 28th, 2012
"If you're getting the sense that Wave has a different idea of what constitutes a 'book' than other publishers, you're on to something."
May 15th, 2012
Simenon was a relentless self-mythologizer, but a pitiless self-analyzer too.
February 18th, 2012
Writing can't be planned for or predicted, and when it happens, when the surge begins, it brings a satisfaction like nothing else.
December 5th, 2011
Writing my book, I kept asking myself: Why haven’t we fought back? Why don’t 21st century writers organize?
November 12th, 2011
Though numbers are, in many regards, decisive, they are not everything.
October 15th, 2011
Not to mention that if you have to call a thing "True," it’s probably not.
September 2nd, 2011
He is both a post-national and post-postmodern writer on the one hand and quite simply a page-turner on the other.
August 31st, 2011
Kipling is a fundamentally dark writer.
August 27th, 2011
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
