Alexander Chee

My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.

I sat down to try to write 'Edinburgh,' an autobiographical novel, and that took five years to write and two years to sell.

I'm not much of a Rick Moody fan, but I want to be a fan for the Rick Moody I thought might appear after his first two novels, 'Garden State' (1992) and 'The Ice Storm' (1994).

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

I don't like to get in front of people.

In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have.