Ordinarily, I'd claim that I'd never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of 'Peter Elroy' is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I'd like my work to contain.

Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.

You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people.

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