Often I visualize a

Often I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride. It’s really crazy. In races, this always happens to me. I see the vision of a runner ahead of me, maybe just 15, 20 meters ahead of me, and the cadence of that runner, which is actually me … Read more

I don’t think my

I don’t think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it’s about understanding the nature of the wound. I’m not bleeding on the canvas. I, like most people, have suffered traumatic events. The character of a person’s life is determined by the way they deal with those events. I am a … Read more

[Michael] Chabon is arguing

[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up – of taking off the class associations with those labels, because we grew up, or I certainly grew up, feeling that, \”Oh, there’s literary fiction, and beneath that, there’s these other things.\” He’s actually saying … Read more