"Recovery is an ongoing project that is really discrete from everything else in my life. It allows me..." — Bill Clegg

I'm rereading Jenny Offill's 'Dept. of Speculation.' I love it, and she's just a magician. Line by line and paragraph by paragraph, it's mesmerizing and so intricately plotted and so nimble.

I have no idea how people think of literary agents. Truthfully, I don't think they think of them very often.

Public speaking, for me, or speaking even in front of a handful of people is my greatest fear.

When I write, I tend to read it out loud to myself after. I'm a very uncomfortable reader, so it creates a distance between the text and me - it is a new way to see it.