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I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and always wanted to set a world-ender on Hispaniola.
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.
I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.
I've always been a macroeconomist. That's what I teach. And I guess that's what I've been concerned with ever since I've been very young.
With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book.
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
I've always been a fan of Kate Winslet. She's very classy and a sexy little thing, too.
I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.
