With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first.
Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn't about, and I don't mean writing style, but cultural style.
The first time I voted, I voted for Eugene McCarthy and I knew he wouldn't win, but it felt so great to vote for him, to vote for the right guy - the one who wanted peace.
I'd like to sit down with Hillary Clinton onstage and ask her about Glass Steagall and all the big banks and her own campaign contributions.
If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do.
