I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.
“She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.”
“I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.”