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I Think, The World Is Actually Huge. That's The Part No One Can Really Explain.

Structural Dissatisfaction: Returning To Circumstances That Once Pleased You, After Having Experienced A More Thrilling Or Opulent Way Of Life, And Finding That You Can No Longer Tolerate Them.

'look At Me' Started With Rockford, Illinois And New York And The Question Of How Much Image Culture Was Changing Our Inner Lives. That's An Abstract Idea; You Don't Think That's Going To Be A Rocking Work Of Fiction, But It Seemed To Fuse In A Way That Was Interesting.

They Were Snobs Or Idiots Or Both...yet She Was Inexplicably Crushed By Their Coldness.

There's Something Very Strange About Associating Me With That Prize. I Had Hoped For It In A More Directed Way As A Journalist. Somehow As A Journalist You Know There Are Pulitzers Out There And You Can Work Hard And Get One. To Win It For Fiction Seems Unbelievable.