Quotes from Gary Lutz

I was a great many far cries from myself.

What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life.

My writing isn't a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.

I've been within an inch of my life.

A calendar was hung in the kitchen as if to say: Expect more of the same.

Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.