Once, I was asked to be on the organizing committee for the Buenos Aires Book Fair and to coordinate a roundtable discussion among writers.

For our honeymoon we went to Tuscany. This got a big sigh from me. I love my job, this city, my life.

They all knew him although no one in Bałtów spoke to him and he spoke to no one.

Mary believed there were two kinds of people in the world. There were those who were seen and those who were not. Mary considered herself the latter. 

Many of us demand a living wage. Others demand health insurance. At least one of us demands some dress-code wiggle room.

Marilyn Minter was a photography student at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, in 1969. 

For a long time I worked on an essay about a fairly obscure American film made in the seventies by an actress, the only film she directed, which she starred in herself, an essay that I published in a small journal and thought perhaps I would turn into a book.

For a long time we wanted to get a second dog. Then we had a baby, and I had to give up this desire for a while.

There are three elements to the photograph. There is the grocery cart in the background, the white Renault hatchback in the foreground, and then at center there is the reclusive philosopher who explored literature’s impossibility. 

After graduate school I hung around another year and drove a cab for Iowa City Yellow Cab. The cab was a boat, a Chevrolet Caprice wagon. I could have put a mattress in the back and lived in it.