With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.

I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.

That's all it's meant to be, ... This is not a literary fiction. This is page-turning fiction that you take to the beach and read for diversion. If I do that, I've done my job.

If you want to be a good lair, tell people what they want to hear. (From Hot dogs under The Dakota)

This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a lie when you see with, not through, the eye.

Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.