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" Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise. "
Information
World
Reliable
" Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children. "
Language
Place
Children
" I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard. "
Read
Grief
Big
" I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow. "
Way
Think
Love
" I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do. "
Negative
Work
Feeling
" I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies. "
Someone
Love
End
" I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion. "
Religion
Hope
Disappointment
" In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track. "
Know
God
Find
" In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me. "
I Can
Care
Find
" It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability. "
Kids
Power
Parents
" It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours. "
Joy
Listen
Habit
" I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids. "
Work
Day
Family
" I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don't feel like I'm exorcising my own deep ideas about parenthood and about how my life will come into play in my work. "
Work
Deep
Enjoy
" Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability. "
Always
Loved
Me
" Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect. "
You
Behavior
Control
" My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all. "
First
Out
Age
" My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time. "
Working
Goal
Time
" My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives. "
Balance
Work
Parents
" The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches. "
Need
Me
Work
" When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level. "
Fear
Level
Started
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