I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.
From Jonathan Lethem
What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.
I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.
Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.
Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film.
I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.
It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.
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