The Spectrum of Perspective in Fiction

A lot of your work is written from the male point of view and you've often talked about how often people are surprised that you're female because your name is genderless. I think for me in some ways that continuum probably comes from being adopted and replacing a dead boy who's nine or ten years older than I am. So I think definitely a part of my soul inhabits that space in some way and feels very comfortable there. And also it's interesting and I learned this in some ways from Grace Paley.