...water Laughing Softly Down A Black Stone

'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.

But I Always Need To Identify With A Character To Write About Him Or Her - And By "identify," I Mean See The World Through That Person's Eyes And Have A Strong Sense Of The Inner Logic Of Their Acts And Decisions, Wacky Or Wrongheaded Though They Might Be. In That Sense, I Think There's Some Of Me In All Of Them.

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

I'm Very Interested In The Way The Internet Has Changed Teenage Life. Obviously It's Very Different From When I Grew Up, When There Weren't Even Answering Machines, Much Less Computers. I Was Telling My Children This The Other Day, And The Little One Said, "did You Have Electricity, Mom?" And I Was Like Okay, Enough, Kid.

I'm Always Happy," Sasha Said. "sometimes I Just Forget.