I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

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In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about...

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about...

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that...

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that...

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know...

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know...

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You...

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You...

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and...

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and...

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless....

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless....

In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump...

In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump...