I enjoy working on something I can control. That rules out everything written for publication
What does it look like and potentially feel like when we finally commit to live inside new collective structures?
If you don’t howl with the wolves, the wolves will howl for you.
I wanted to create a situation that Trump would not be able to actually catch up to in reality.
If I’m the god of my characters, I hope I’m a flexible one.
For me the great thing about anthropology – and the reason I remain an anthropologist – lies in this freedom that it grants its practitioners to roam intellectually.
And while I’m lobbing around so many crass generalizations, here’s one more: All of us are beholden to some larger tyranny or coercion, real or imagined, that is ever ready to crush us.
Instead of writing about a heyday of a culture or a scene or a place, I wanted to land in the aftermath. I wanted to see what was going on those doldrums.
Progressive politics and privilege butting heads: that’s sort of where I like to live when I’m writing.
Did Congress know that as a result of Sputnik we were going to have a deconstruction-mad America?