He explores with merciless and lacerating precision the demoralized state of the urban man-boy and alterna-dad. Lipsyte Man—a baffled and wounded specimen.

Basilicata is a region of a rich and complex history. These poets have managed to channel the oscillations between hope and despair, pain and joy.

I experienced the movie as I always did—through an aching haze of nostalgia. The movie felt like Christmas, of course, but it also felt like my family.

It’s letters that both define and give life. A certain conclusion is unassailable: God is an alphabet—God is the alphabet.

Gonzo or not, I had to cultivate many sources during their own benders, as oilfield types were disproportionately heavy drinkers.

In general, I will say that blurbs are a blight on the publishing industry, both for people seeking blurbs and the writers asked to blurb.

Glimmer Train stories, well—they told a story. It was a place, cornball as it might sound, to explore the human heart.

All first-person narrators are unreliable. This is less a structural feature of storytelling and more a structural feature of the human condition.

The frequency, specificity, consistency, and overarching structure in Eucalyptus and The Overstory transcend typical well-considered similes of other works.

My garden had also been a way to make some order from chaos, find some grace through growth and change, and create an enthusiasm of my own.