“Between the opening credits and the 3 a.m. feedings, as I watched films in 20-minute increments, something profound happened.”
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Invisible Ink: At the CIA’s Creative Writing Group
“When an organization has, say, financed the overthrow of the government of Guatemala, you would think there might be a speaking fee.”
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Route 66 Is Turning 100 This Year. It Still Has Stories to Tell About America.
“The country’s legendary main street celebrates its centennial against the backdrop of the nation’s 250th birthday. Could there be a better time for a road trip?”
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I Am the “Other” in “Mother”
“By choosing surrogacy, I felt I outsourced the very essence of what makes a woman worthy.”
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The Long Haul
“Now I rarely let myself think of those Before Times. Describing what was once my life is like trying to recapture a sensation, a place that only ever existed in a dream.”
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Roadside Attraction
“The desert has a changeling effect, transforming lights into magic, desert into space, visitors into lovers, me into something apart from what I actually am.”
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The Favourite Patient
“But when it comes to my doctors, not only do I want them to like me—I want them to like me the most. I want to be the favourite patient.”
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All My Dad’s Sons
“At a very young age, I learned a lot about how life can go wrong. It put things into perspective, even if that perspective was a little warped.”
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How to Crash
“I thought of the pinkish, folded gel which in its mysteries congeal all my memories and dreams, and how it had been thrust from a moving vehicle onto an English road with nothing to protect it but the back of my skull.”
