--I was delighted to be on the New Yorker's Fiction Podcast, reading a gorgeous Alice Munro story called "Axis" and discussing it with fiction editor Deborah Treisman. I love Alice Munro. If I could choose five living writers to have a dinner with, I'd choose Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, Lydia Davis, Lorrie Moore, and Deborah Eisenberg. It doesn't escape me that they're all primarily short story writers, and all women. I'd just sit back, drink the champagne, and listen.

--"Eyewall," my story originally published in the great journal Subtropics, just won a PEN/O. Henry prize, and will be in t