Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.
I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.
I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.
When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.
My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.
I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
