American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
From Katherine Dunn
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
I think that it's really important to go away and come back.
Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.
We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.
Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.
I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.
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