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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago. We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and…

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers,…

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character…

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it…

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they…

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. When suffering knocks…

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first…

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's. I…

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before…

I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because…

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former…

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I…