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I think of myself as an old dad. I was thirty-eight when my first son Ethan was born; forty-one when twins Henry and Celia were born. My father was even older — forty-five — when I was born. And he … Continue reading →

Katherine Dunn on non-fiction vs. fiction: “Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private autism, a self-referential world in which the writer is omnipotent. Gravity, taxes … Continue reading →

Over at the Fictionaut blog, there’s a really nice write-up about my story “Why We Came to Target at 9:58 on a Monday Night.” It’s part of the Fictionaut Fave series. Here’s how Ben White begins his piece: “Sometimes the … Continue reading →

Carol Keeley’s beautiful, eye-opening essay over at the Ploughshares blog. It’s about sentences. And I like sentences, a lot, and Carol covers Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Don DeLillo, Gary Lutz and David Foster Wallace. The essay also includes one of my … Continue reading →

David Means on stories vs. novels: “A story allows me to find some character, usually lonely and isolated in one way or another, and to find a way to tell a little bit of his or her story, somehow, expand … Continue reading →