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I’m pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex, and, most important, friendship, which can overcome time, distance, and even death.
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Adventure Distance Important Sex
Where I live you’re not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.
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Dwelling Miles Quarters
I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.
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Black Degrees Training
I like living near my family, and near the people I understand the best. The landscape of Michigan speaks to me, and the humility and humor of the people here makes sense. It just feels right to live here, in a place where I don’t dare put on airs.
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Humility Landscape People Speak
I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they’re not being written about much anymore.
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Needs People Writing
Mostly the natural landscapes work as a sounding board for my characters, so they can understand themselves, and it acts as a mirror in which we readers see ourselves.
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Character Different World
The great thing about fiction is that I don’t have to settle on an answer to any troubling question, or even a solution.
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Broken Decision Writing
Nobody tells young writers it’s okay if you’re not very good, you’ll get better. So I just thought I’m not very good, so I should try to do every other thing besides writing. That’s how I ended up being a hitchhiker, a world traveler, and a mathematician.
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Better Trying Writing
My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They’re very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.
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Cautiousness People Smart
I’m of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.
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Bars People Stories
I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
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Specificity Thinking Writing
When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food.
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Dad Horse Kicked Kids Mom Order
I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.
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People School Writing
Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.
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Feet Scary Years
It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid.
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Character Fighting War
Men didn’t understand that you couldn’t let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when there was so much work to do.
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Consume Men Passion Sleep Work

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