In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.
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Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don't just flash by but deserve some reflection.
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Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.
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'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience.
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The way I see it, a clever cat prowls but calls home occasionally.
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Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. I think my characters all want something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow.
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I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don't have a lot.
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We had a cistern for water. My grandmother churned butter and made lye soap. She and my mother did the washing in a wash kettle outdoors, using a fire to heat the water. That's the way they did the wash until the 1950s.
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My mother watched the skies at evening for a portent of the morrow. A cloud that went over and then turned around and came back was an especially bad sign.
