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The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community.

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The M.F.A. is a degree in servitude. It is a way to keep writing safe - to keep reading safe from writing.

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Writing is a conviction before it is a craft.

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The big publishers want someone they can send on the Jewish book circuit, somebody the old ladies can see marrying their granddaughters.

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In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his transformation in a process that's explained not through the supernatural but the natural or, at least, through biochemistry.

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Say you're an American novelist, published by the largest publishing house in the world. Their goal is to make as much money from you as possible, to have as many people read your book in as many formats as possible. How can you hope to speak intimately to the numbers of people that represent the book sales required?

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The larger your audience, the smaller your vocabulary and range of referents - the fewer your means of expression. You can't rely on the luxury of intimacy.

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I've always been discreet - more than discreet. When a friend calls, and I'm doing something innocuous like cooking dinner, I tell them I'm reading or running out to the movies. It's the surveillance I can't stand.

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I've never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe.

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I've never been able to shake the idea of family, which is to say I've never been able to shake my family. Being membered - being one limb of an immense grosser body - that's always been a fact to me.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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