Essay, "Writing with My Fountain Pen": "I found that writing longhand slowed me down and encouraged me to think about what I was putting on the page."
Interview, "I feel like I'm working on myself": "I got turned on to [Fielding] Dawson and Charles Bukowski at the same time. I called Bukowski one time — I was nineteen and I was drunk, and I thought Hey, what could go wrong?"