I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.
I wrote two novels about a yoga studio in Los Angeles published by Penguin under the pen name Rain Mitchell.
It's really fun to write something for kids. You can make it a little bit more extreme and crazy than you would for adults.
It's hard to describe the work of the British-born Australian writer Elizabeth Jolley without somewhat misrepresenting it.
I loved Victoria Glendinning's bio of Vita Sackville-West. I also loved Michael Holroyd's immense biography of Lytton Strachey.
When you're laughing aloud at David Sedaris' every sentence, it's easy to miss the more serious side of what he's up to.
The experience of writing under a pseudonym was tremendously liberating; I could write what I wanted.