a novella

to me.

I mean, I realize that 400 pages is... a little longer than average for a literary novel these days.

But you'll have to agree, Charlie, that it's a much shorter novel for me.

The last chairlift was over 1,200 pages.

So, you know, this was decidedly a shorter novel for me.

It looks like a novel of normal length.

said in other books, I've said in other interviews

Mm

... really mattered.

Um, in the civil rights days, in the gay rights days, think of the Stonewall riots, think of all the protests against the war in, in Vietnam.

Well, I Am drawn to the past because of what a, a teacher, uh, history is.

I'm drawn to that in my fiction.

Certainly as many as ha-half or more than half of my novels are historical, and it's not coincidental that they tend to be the most political of my novels.

But, um, I, I felt it was essential to protest again this auth-authoritarian bully in the White House who is abusing his best allies and who is turning back the clock on, on so many issues of equality and sexual freedom I've long believed in.

Hmm.