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- Maybe
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In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.
- Lot
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There's not a lot of good TV.
- Day
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I use New York to talk about home, but the ideas in 'Colossus' could be transferred to other cities. The story about Central Park is really about the first day of spring in any park. The Coney Island chapter is really about beaches and summer and heat waves.
- Errand
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I love getting out of the Q train at Union Square. It's such a mix of people, like a party. There's always an errand you can do along there, whether it's picking up contacts or buying poker chips.
- Before
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I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.
- Figuring
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The terror of figuring out a new genre, of telling a new story, is what makes the job exciting, keeps me from getting bored, and I assume it keeps whoever follows my work from getting bored as well.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be one of these multidisciplinary critics who is doing music one day, TV the next, and books the next.
- Die
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Access to information, to music or any kind of culture, is getting faster and faster and more streamlined. At each juncture, people are thrown into tumult and have to adapt or die.
- Days
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In 'John Henry Days,' I was taking my idea of junketeering and sort of blowing it up to absurd extremes.
- Got
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I never actually went anywhere when I was a journalist. I was a critic, and I just sort of got stuff in the mail and chatted about it.
- Good
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As always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them out.
- Appreciate
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It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to appreciate them.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
'John Henry Days' was already half in the can before my first book came out, so I'd already started something that was big and sprawling - I just had to finish it.
- Genres
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