"Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're ru..." — Junot Diaz

Spin is 'something is beautiful because we say it's beautiful.'

We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest way.

My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.

I mean, I'm an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.