American - Novelist | September 1, 1978 -
In general, the human race is still a young organism.
Jesse Kellerman
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Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.
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I remember my father banging away on an IBM Selectric in the garage. He wrote his first novels on that machine. I remember its pebbly surface, its cold heft. It made its mark, literally and violently.
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Art requires choices, the more specific, the better.
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Trying to catch hold of yourself is a fool's errand. There is no you, only a series of former yous, created in one instant, deleted in the next.
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Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.
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There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.
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When I was four, we went to Oahu. It was the first time we celebrated Passover away from home.
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It's much easier to identify and fix problems in language and timing when you hear the words being read.
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