Rick Kleffel:agony Column

"Is this the true order?"

The Dirty Streets of Heaven

"Why can't a book stay a book?"

"...a rigorous definition of what sorry is..."

Sorry Please Thank You

"...I knew the story was going to end with a woman waiting at a playground at night...."

"...there comes a time when I need to step back and not be thinking about the words so much..."

And When She Was Good

"...once in a while it feels like you’re channeling..."

"In the novel it gets very, very dark and it's sort of Lord of the Flies for the 21st century."

The Whip

"I didn't start out with the intention of re-writing the history, like I said, of reality..."

"...their poetic gift did seem to sort of, come from outside of themselves..."

Hide Me Among the Graves

"..they did Jimmy Olsen that, didn't they?" - John Shirley

"My goal in writing the book was to write it as it felt."

The Long Walk

"...it's the sort of restless, screwed-up dead..."

"...I decided I wanted to write pieces that I might have written if I was thirty years old in 1875."

Zeuglodon