Quote

I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,' 'American Heritage,' 'Horizon,' 'The Ladies Home Journal,' 'The Kenyon Review,' 'The Sewanee Review,' 'Poetry,' 'Botteghe Oscure,' the 'Atlantic Monthly,' 'Harper's.'

I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction are George Saunders and Alice Munro.

I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.

I really like the short stories that Melissa Bank writes. I think she's sort of channeling the female version of J.D. Salinger in more recent days.

Oh, I love to read more than anything. I always love the 'New Stories From the South' anthologies - I think it's the best short fiction collection anywhere, just filled with treasures.

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections.

I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.

I like helping other writers who don't know what to do or where to go in New York.