I Am Excited By... The

I Have Sparred With Commenters As A Music Writer (on The Rumpus, Among Other Places, See E.g., My Review About Taylor Swift), And That Was Plenty Of Training!

I Sort Of Hate The Novel When It Doesn't Push, Restlessly, Against The Tradition And The Traditional.

I'm Trying To Read More Dead People Because I Keep Having To Read Stuff For Juries And So Forth.

Maybe When I'm Sixty-five I'll Talk About My Literary Life.

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.