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I grew up in Oregon, and then I lived in San Francisco and New York.

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The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.

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I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.

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I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but not illogically, for reasons that could not have been anticipated.

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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.

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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.

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Italy in the Seventies seems like a fascinating place.

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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.

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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.

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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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