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I was working my first adult job, a quasi journalistic job, writing content for a website. In the offices, we had banks of TVs, papers, a constant media stream, which was unusual for 2001.

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I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'Essential Billy Joel.'

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I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.

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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.

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The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.

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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.

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Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.

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In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.

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In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.

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Nationality: American

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Born: Unknown

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