I liked this book of essays written over the years taken from magazine articles, speeches, and promotional interviews with a short retrospective description at the end of each, mainly because because of the way it bears on the novels he's written that I enjoyed. He has a dry and kind of fussy way of recounting events which he attributes to his need to use his fiction-writing mind to portray non-fictional events. There were glimpses of self-awareness that seemed just right to me, with a kind of chagrin about the kind of persona he has turned out to posssess, and traces of the obsessiveness that comes out in most of his stories. A person who doesn't care about his fiction probably won't find much reason to read these, but someone who does might find a reason to dip back into a book they haven't read in a long time with a feeling that there might be a new insight to be had.