Hubert Selby Jr.: A Memoir of My Life

You took a fiction seminar with Hubert Selby Jr., the author of Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream. He was also very open about the struggles that he had had in his writing, you say. "He said something about being a frustrated preacher to me," says O'Mara. You called the experience several other wonderfully profane meditations on the American underworld.