It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the passage of time.

As a reader, I appreciate a world that feels unsettled and also visceral, inhabitable, so that's a quality I try and bring to my own work. In this way, dislocation and precision make total sense to me as a unit.

I always tell my students that, in fiction, the opening is a clue to the work's DNA: not only what it is, but what it will become, where it will lead you.

Laura van den Berg Quotes