If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.
The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the work of any generation of writers.
Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.
Artists used to argue about art for art's sake versus social realism etc, and now it's like the most dominate argument is related to "art for the market's sake. " It's a necessity, somewhat, for some people.
The Web ultimately is a medium used by real offline people, and as such, it'll probably be whatever we are.
There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.
If you want to change things in the USA it's best not to spend all your time writing but to take action against the ol' sea of troubles.
As long as the "woman's work" that some men do is socially devalued, as long as it is defined as woman's work, as long as it's tacked onto a "regular" work day, men who share it are likely to develop the same jagged mouth and frazzled hair as the coffee-mug mom. The image of the new man is like the image of the supermom: it obscures the strain.
I think all those years that I spent as a nurse, from the age of seventeen, just allowed me an insight into human emotion at those times of life when it's so important. And to see and witness those times of grief and love and loss and all those things was such a huge privilege, both in my own personal life, but it also, I think, spills over into my writing. I think the one thing that most novelists have is some degree of emotional intelligence, and if you don't have that, then perhaps you might struggle to be a novelist, because that has to come out somewhere.
On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.
Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.