Michael Brooks

I think of writing a lot like walking. It’s rarely the most popular, the most effective, or the most efficient way of getting to your destination. I d

That is, to me, everything is fair game. (If something powerful and negative exists in the world and we don’t write about it, what is writing for?)

A work of fiction is, in a sense, always “wrong.” It is a complicated organism. It is not, ever, an accurate or correct or true or 100 percent “defens

I think of writing a lot like walking. It’s rarely the most popular, the most effective, or the most efficient way of getting to your destination. I d

That is, to me, everything is fair game. (If something powerful and negative exists in the world and we don’t write about it, what is writing for?)

A work of fiction is, in a sense, always “wrong.” It is a complicated organism. It is not, ever, an accurate or correct or true or 100 percent “defens