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Can each chapter in a novel-in-stories, like “My Life at First Try,” stand alone? Like an orchestra player, each individual chapter can play nicely by itself, but a group of them can still work in concert.

When I was young, I’d say that I don’t need luck since I have talent, but I know better than that now.

I prefer observations over political discussions. The former are spontaneously honest but the latter are labored and fruitless.

It’s not important what or how well you write but who you are. Names sell words.

The evening of January 21, 1924, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, was busy dying. He kept sinking into the bog of unconsciousness, filling up his mouth and nose with corrosive muck the color of the Soviet flag. Eventually, he would resurface, but each time he remained under longer and longer, and each time…

An interview with me at CSMS magazine is here.