Also, of course, creating a social ambience in which men of all ages can have fun is always a clue to social and erotic success, I'd hazard. They are both dead. My father never knew about them, because his wife tore all remarks about my work out of his daily newspaper, which she censored. My mother, as I've mentioned, was a good sport. She was a psychologist and an enlightened woman.
Publishing seems to be a cutthroat business.
The problem is that there probably aren't more than 20 literary writers in America who support themselves from their writing. I've always had to supplement my income through journalism or by teaching. I teach at Princeton now. Don't give up that day job if you want to write serious literary fiction. Mr. White, although I embrace the Internet and all it has done to bring the people of the world together, sometimes I worry on the effect that it is having on books.