Sublime

Susanna Moore, author of eleven books, who teaches creative writing at Princeton.

I realized that as long as we were labeling them (and they were labeling themselves) as “cons,” we were all going to be victims of a never-ending cycle. So I began thinking of these people as entrepreneurs. I saw a chance to hustle with them and for them, to create a story that could break a cycle.

It sometimes feels like Regan’s the only one here who actually does any good in the world, making people feel better. She was an old-school peace warrior before the climate war, sneaking onto airfields and disarming fighter jets. Now she’s here helping refugees.

But she’ll talk to Imani McGuire. Holly is a fan of Michael Connelly’s detective hero, Harry Bosch, and especially of Bosch’s number one maxim: get off your ass and go knock on doors.

But he said it in a way that made me open to his criticisms, to listening to my hero telling me something I needed to hear. There is an old expression, “a Dutch uncle,” which refers to a person who gives you honest feedback. Few people bother doing that nowadays,

Anyone who does anything even remotely irritating is, from this point on, a Republican.