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In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

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There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!

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In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

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My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

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Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.

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I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.

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I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.

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Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.

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I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

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I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.

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And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it.

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I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.

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Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

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My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

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New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

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I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.

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This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

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