Last Seen Entering the Biltmore: Plays, Short Fiction, Poems 1975-2010

In New York, being "nothing" was simply out of the question. I never loved New York, I live there now and I still don't, though now I find I really hate the place and once upon a time it was both an adventure and a place to experiment: with doing nothing, rather than being nothing. It was in New York I decided one fine morning that I never, ever would do anything in my life that I didn't basically want to do.... And I haven't, really, ever since.

Before publishing his celebrated first novel,...