"(What’s the last great book you read?) ...Ottessa Moshfegh’s razor-sharp short stories “Homesick for Another World”"

"What in effect looks like clear and directed writing took much chaos and anxiety. I felt like I was losing my mind to…"

"In order to write well, I need to have the ability to be honest with myself without it causing pain. When I’m really …"

"Thinking abstractly about depression is so easy, but the experience of it is more like being in touch with something …"

"Imaro exploded. "Why do men fight like starving lions over yellow metal and let valuable cattle go?""

"In the dry places, men begin to dream. Where the rivers run sand, there is something in man that begins to flow. West…"

"There are things in one's thoughts sometimes, particularly upon humorous themes, that can not be put with near as muc…"

"… Hassan promotes the BITE model as a scientific method for identifying “destructive cults,” claiming it can distingu…"

"For we Americans, though we are the most restless race in the world, with the possible exception of the Bedouins, alm…"

"Chicago is stupefying. It knows no rules, and I know none by which to judge it. It stands apart from all the cities i…"