"I start with an idea I'd like to explore, search for someone to be kind of window dressing," he says. "This is the problem with my writing, of course, because the reader senses halfway through that I've chosen the subject, the person, simply as a convenience to advance this agenda" He adds: "It's generally true, and I will say it with a certain amount of vanity, that I love getting engaged with people, odd people, strange people, interesting people."

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