I Think People Got In Touch With

I'm In That Very Preliminary Stage Of Wondering How Exactly To "pressurize" The Novel In Some Way I've Never Considered Before.

I Think People Got In Touch With Me Either Knowing My Work, Or Probably More Frequently Just Knowing A Plot Or Sort Of Buzz About Something I Did And Sort Of Saying, "get That Guy That Writes The Crazy Stuff In Here."

I Have An Enduring, Very Robust Infatuation With Dictators. I Have An Infatuation With Stalin, Mao, And Mussolini. In The Paris Review Interview I Did (in 2013), I Said My Next Book, This One, Was Going To Be About Mussolini. I Wound Up Only Having A Mussolini Cameo In The Book.

I Thought Of Myself As Kind Of An Anarchist All My Whole Adult Life, From The Days When I Was 15 Or 16.

My Relationship With My Readers Is Somewhat Theatrical. One Of The Main Things I Try To Do In My Work Is Delight My Readers.