I Am A Person Who Dreads Any

New Jersey For Me Is So Alive With History. It's Old, Dynamic, African-american, Latino.

'drown' Was Always A Hybrid Book. It's Connected Stories - Partially A Story Collection But Partially A Novel. I Always Wanted The Reader To Decide Which Genre They Thought The Book Belonged To More - Story, Novel, Neither, Both.

If You Were A Nerd Computer Geek In 1982, The Amount Of Isolation You Felt - At Least What I Experienced, Or The Kids I Knew, The Isolation They Felt - Was Almost Total. They Were Not Part Of Society; No One Thought They Were Cool.

Literature Is Less Involved In Giving You Answers And More Dedicated To Giving You Insight.

And Because Love, Real Love, Is Not So Easily Shed.