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...your mom write the foreword.Did she give you a lot of break-up advice growing...
...Well, people want to work. Especially when you write, one of the things...you realize is there is no direct interface with your audience. It’s just like this assumption that there are words on a page and someone’s reading them and hopefully enjoying them. But there’s no contact, so the idea of reading something you’ve written out loud in front of an audience and hopefully that audience is laughing, that’s like ‘Oh, yeah, this...
...write a television show. Measured against more thoughtful and meaningful occupations, this is not the best seat from which to argue public policy or social justice. Still, those viewers who followed The Wire - our HBO drama that tried to portray all sides of inner-city collapse, including the drug war, with as much detail and as little judgment as we could muster - tell us they've invested in the fates of our characters. They worry or grieve for Bubbles, Bodie or Wallace, certain that these characters are fictional yet knowing they are rooted in the reality of the other America...
...mother, after observing me waste away hours every day watching cycles—“Top Model” has cycles, not seasons (and with a dozen girls trapped in a house together for months, the menstruation jokes write themselves)—asked me how I could possibly find entertainment in reality TV I’d already seen...
...inspirations I had was a comic book called “Love and Rockets” by Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez. They were the first guys to get compliments in terms of female characters. I immersed myself in their work so deeply that when it came time to write my own stories it wasn’t even a conscious effort to say, “Now I need to develop these female characters.”THC: “Shortcomings” is your new book dealing with race and racial identity. Why at this point in your...