called working area during a routine inspection. it caused a brief evacuation of fire and emergency crews. pointing out that there could be a lot of suspects. where this was discovered is a heavily traveled area where many white house west wing i should be even more specific. the west wing visitors come through this particular area when people visit the west wing. there is the area of the west wing where it is highly traveled. and that is what happens when people come through this particular area. it s highly traveled. i m not going to get into specifics. we have west wing tours. this particular past couple of days happen on friday and saturday and sunday. the white house also dodging questions left and right on the cocaine caper. something that is not magnetic into the white house. i totally understand that question. it is under investigation. does the white house support the prosecution of this individual? i m not going to get into hypotheticals. with the pr
In your home, your Writing Study is just below us, the floor below. Just tell me, does it matter to you when you are writing what is going on in the world outside Yourfront Door . Does it affect your writing . Well, it depends on what you mean. If theres a fire engine screeching in front of my door, it will interrupt my concentration, and i might go out and see whats going on. But if theres a distant war going on in another place and i know about it, im not going to read about it while im doing my work for the day. But i certainly will inform myself about it later. You talk of distant wars. Im thinking of wars much closer to home. You write a lot about your take on american politics. Youve talked about your feelings through the course of four years of donald trump. Youve talked about a country at war with itself. So the war isnt so very far away. Yes, the war that were engaged in here, fortunately, has not become yet a fighting war with guns, to a large degree. But we are divided in wa
Us, the floor below. Just tell me, does it matter to you when you are writing what is going on in the world outside Yourfront Door . Does it affect your writing . Well, it depends on what you mean. If theres a fire engine screeching in front of my door, it will interrupt my concentration and i might go out and see whats going on. But if theres a distant war going on in another place and i know about it, im not going to read about it while im doing my work for the day, but i certainly will inform myself about it later. You talk of distant wars, im thinking of wars much closer to home. You write a lot about your take on american politics. Youve talked about your feelings through the course of four years of donald trump. Youve talked about a country at war with itself, so the war isnt so very far away. Yes. The war that were engaged in here, fortunately, has not become, yet, a fighting war with guns to a large degree. But we are divided in ways that i have never seen before, and ive been
chick-fil-a has got great ice cream. when mcdonald s ice cream machine is working. if you ve got to come up with a crazy name and put 15 different flavors in it, maybe it ain t that good to begin with. can t remember what you asked. i know you don t. it is a capitalist market. you have the opportunity for choice in this country like no other place in the world. you can choose the ice cream you eat. maybe you don t support ben & jerry s or do. i don t care. i care as much about what ice cream you eat about they are very not not very educated on. go ahead. the land where mount rushmore is, they took it from other tribes right before it was taken from them. they have the least standing for that area other than a government that they call us corrupt moments to do them. all of those folks are dead now. i don t really care.
capitalist market of art i mean, art as business has assumed all along. but then are you saying that in this market oriented capitalist united states of america of 2021, where the internet and digital culture dominates all, are you saying that there. ..that writing fiction and the novel matters as much as ever? that, you know, you and the generation before you, of updike and bellow and roth and all these others. it doesn t matter because a book is read by one person at a time. and the book, in spite of everything, is the only. a novel, for example, is the only place, i think, in the human world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy. and that space that is created in the book is something very beautiful and precious. and whether ten people read the book or 10,000 people read the book or 10 million people read the book, it doesn t matter. the person reading it is alone with the writer