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- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always into comic books and horror stories and a huge consumer of pop culture. And then I worked for awhile for 'The Village Voice'.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Declaration of Independence is that sacred American text so full of meaning and purpose and yet quite empty if you examine it and pull it apart because the words 'All Men' exclude a vast number of citizens.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you write about race in 1850, you end up talking about race today because in many ways, so little has changed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like questions that tee me up to make weird jokes, frankly.
- How
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Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are lying.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from this or that piece of art that has stayed with me. Toni Morrison, George Romero, Sonic Youth - they are all in there.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are good writers and bad writers. It's hard to find writers who really speak to you, but the work is out there.
- Race
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do write about race a lot, but I don't think writers - of any shade or background or whatever - have to write about certain subjects.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't like it when you compare the miracle of childbirth to writing a book, but I think there is some overlap in the two because they are both pure agony.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of early Misfits song titles are inspired by old B-movies, which were my Popeye's spinach when I was a kid.
- Eternity
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- Nov 07, 2020
If self-absorption, vague yearnings, and a nagging sense of incompleteness are sins, then surely I will burn for all eternity, and I will save you a seat.
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- Nov 07, 2020