"One of the things about being a writer is that it’s a solitary occupation. One of the great pleasures of my life was the few times when I’ve been it and done it with other people. The most intense version of that was the four years I spent at Harvard working on The Crimson, the newspaper." ...

"The dancer identity has many layers. Some are positive (graceful, strong, beautiful), some negative (poor, insecure, dumb.)" ...

As the funeral procession passed the red brick home on the way to the Salem Cemetery, the child, standing and watching from the porch, broke into a mournful improvised song laced with primal movement that was appropriate for the raw howling of a third- grader. The youthful erotic late-night theatrical improvisations with neighborhood girls ('Dances to the Moon' – a possible biblical reference to the moon tu ...