

The Autobiography of a Life I Never Lived
Writing fiction is a form of wish fulfillment. Writing is such an immersive process that one of the byproducts is that the writer is...


Based on a True Story
I’ve always been suspicious of films that purported to be “based on a true story.” That seems like a huge cheat to me. You get the...


Fathering and Fiction
I’ve been writing nonfiction books for many years now, everything from parenting to politics. When I decided that I needed to write about...


Little Bit
One of the questions I get from readers regularly is about whether my novels are autobiographical. I'm guessing this happens to me so...