Embrace the Chaos

I am the sort of person who believes there is a correct way to load a dishwasher. (Back to front; don’t @ me with that “anywhere you want” anarchy.) I am also the sort of person who rebels against rules that I find arbitrarily restrictive. (The Oxford comma is great—except when you don’t need it.) This dichotomy—some would say contradiction—may have made me the perfect candidate for the experiment currently underway in my writing life. It began with a casual comment that nearly set my brain on fire. Last year, my friend and fellow author Peter McDade was kind enough to interview me about my most recent Tim Green novel, Home Was a Dream. It was a fun and intriguing conversation, two word nerds and fiction fanboys dissecting the story with joy and precision. And then there was that one moment where all you could hear on the recording was...

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