Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know.
From Mona Simpson
I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven't lived in a small town since.
Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.
In our national mythology, we seem to include only one-way migrations to the great capitol cities. The journey from the small Wisconsin town or Minnesota city to Chicago or New York or Los Angeles. Certainly for some people, that journey is a round trip.
The more you learn about animals and animal rights - it's an intriguing, fascinating world.
I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created criminal profiling - a fascinating book, 'Mind Hunter.'
It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous.
We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.
'Casebook' is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.
We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'
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