"I had to kind of make it up as i went and i had some real, kind of creative doldrums along the way," she says. "The ideas are standing or falling on their own merit ... what the background is all that really, at least to me, doesn't matter" She's an anthologist, a biographer who does no editorializing, whatever,. which is amazing. It's like this is just a superinteresting, brilliant person who just started kind of yelling into the void."