Mark, thanks for agreeing to talk with me. You and I had an earlier conversation about how location affects your writing. I know that you have recently moved. Can you describe your previous and new locations?
I’m glad to. I lived in a one-bedroom apartment in New York, on West Sixteenth Street for twenty-one years, the longest time in my life I’ve ever lived in one place, though for years I wasn’t in the city year-round. I taught at the University of Houston one semester a year for part of that time, and for some years, I spent springs and summers in Provincetown, then later in The Springs, out near the eastern tip of Long Island. From 2019 until 2023, I stayed in Manhattan year-round, and then I did a radical thing: I marshaled every resource I had and bought a farmhouse on 13 acres up in the Hudson River Valley, quite a ways up, right between the Hudson and the Berkshires.
