A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical. Stacey D'Erasmo More Quotes by Stacey D'Erasmo More Quotes From Stacey D'Erasmo I think for some people real success would mean having all the money in the world and having everyone love you every minute of the day. I don’t know if that’s really my aspiration. I just want to keep doing this. I just want to keep finding new ways and new paths and new territory. Every time I get to do it, it feels like freedom. Stacey D'Erasmo real love-you mean Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives. As if he were Borges's wisecracking, sardonic son, Bolaño has meticulously created a tightly woven network of far-right litterateurs and purveyors of belles lettres for whom Hitler was beauty, truth, and the great lost hope. Stacey D'Erasmo wicked knives son The songs in 'Wonderland' don't have a melodic life for me - I'm not a musical person - but they have an emotional life, an emotional echo perhaps. Stacey D'Erasmo person me emotional life As lightly toned by reality as the women on 'Sex and the City,' the bold, soigne characters on 'The L Word' suggest that L is also for limerence, that rapturous state of early love when the entire world is glowing and delectable. Stacey D'Erasmo city women love world All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest. Stacey D'Erasmo places right always different A lot of times, really wonderful things that have come my way have come basically out of the blue. Stacey D'Erasmo things blue wonderful way Royalty mostly seem like members of some anachronistic faith, like the Amish, peculiar in gilded buggies. Stacey D'Erasmo some like royalty faith The much-lauded visual artist Roni Horn got her Master's in Sculpture from Yale in the Seventies, but in the course of her career she has moved, among other media, from watercolors to photographs to floor-sized installations and mats of poured gold. Stacey D'Erasmo she media artist gold What is the distance between here and there, between now and then, between right and wrong? In Greg Baxter's pellucid first novel, 'The Apartment,' it may be simply the length of a day - but a day in which one travels surprisingly far, literally and figuratively. Stacey D'Erasmo right-and-wrong wrong day distance A performer needs and craves a live audience. Stacey D'Erasmo performer live audience needs The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location. Stacey D'Erasmo technology age time travel There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less. Stacey D'Erasmo computers digital matter time 'The Girls' tells the story of Rose and Ruby Darlen, who are not only literally but spiritually attached for eternity. Born joined at the head in 1974 to a feckless teenage mother who abandons them, and reared by a delightfully open-minded adoptive couple, the Darlen girls are darling girls, indeed. Stacey D'Erasmo story born mother rose I don't go online when I'm writing - that's the devil's workshop - but in general, I'm on there as much as any other global citizen. Stacey D'Erasmo workshop go devil writing You can get anything online, including things that don't even exist. We've invented our own collective unconscious. The normal rules of time and space don't apply. It's held together by some other force than gravity. It's endless. It's like some unimaginably huge, messy novel that's writing itself both with and without us. Stacey D'Erasmo you space together time My books - I kid you not - are very often shelved between DeLillo and de Sade. Which not only completely cracks me up, but it seems like an encouraging message from the universe: between those two, there's a lot of wiggle room. I feel just fine there. Stacey D'Erasmo feel me you universe Writers and musicians are very similar in that the chances of making a life in either field are so infinitesimal. And once you're in, the chances of staying viable are difficult. But there is something incredibly different about performing in front of a live audience, as opposed to sitting at your desk typing. Stacey D'Erasmo live you sitting life I write things in my house, and hopefully there's a reader out there who enjoys it and has an experience with it, but that's very different than a performer on stage, where there's an immediate dance with the audience. It's incredibly powerful. Stacey D'Erasmo experience powerful dance house One of the first times that I went into a book store and saw a bunch of my books, my impulse was to put them all under my coat and run away so that no one else could see them, even though, of course, I wanted everyone to see them. Stacey D'Erasmo everyone run see book I was influenced by big, strong voices - writers like Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Jane Bowles; gay writers like Ed White, Michael Cunningham, Allen Hollinghurst; and contemporary lesbian writers, like Dorothy Allison. Stacey D'Erasmo like gay strong white
