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The thing is, you try your best, and what else you got? You try your best, really, that's all you can do. And for me, my best happens really so rarely.

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I'm a product of a fragmented world.

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My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.

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We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves.

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I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

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I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.

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Technically, I split my time between N.Y.C. and Boston.

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I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.

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My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.

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So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 31st, 1968

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