One character who didn't want to be written
Sometimes characters tell you nearly everything you need to know to share their story -- others, like Beth in "Ordinary People" and the...
When Characters Won't Leave
It seems I’m never ready to put characters aside once I’ve found them. I’ve written sequels to Second Heaven (A Different Life) and The...
My Writer's Compulsion Toward Dysfunction
A profile in the June 2 New Yorker, of English novelist Edward St. Aubyn, set me thinking about my own preoccupation with dysfunctional...
