I wanted to be a writer since I was eight. I am a compusive reader and have always read anything in front of me, including cereal boxes, though I'll put it down if I don't think it is good, as I rapidly decompensate from bad writing. Fortunately, there's so much good writing. My mother directed me to all of the Victorian writers when I was young, so the time I was in graduate school and sat in a Victorian literature class, I only had to read one of the many books . . . the others I re-read or knew by heart. I turned to the great structuralist, magical realist and exi more...
