Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am an anthologist, you see. I sort of make anthologies for people.
With the possible exception of steampunk aficionados, many reasonable people must view my fascination with Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction - mysteries, fantasy, and adventure - as eccentric or merely antiquarian.
For me, art is always a kind of theater.
All literature is gossip.
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
Gossip is more popular than literature.
The funny thing is, though I write mysteries, it is the one genre in adult fiction I never read. I read Nancy Drew, of course, when I was a kid, but I think the real appeal is as a writer because I'm drawn to puzzly, complicated plots.
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!