America’s Most Alarming Writer by Edited By Bill Broyles and Bruce J. Dinges

“He says he can’t write unless he thinks it’s music, thereby beating back his own cowardice. He’s like Kerouac this way, and also in that his subject is America. He told me once all of modern American writing comes from one line in Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address: ‘and the war came.’ His point was the rhythm of the thing. I think some people hear it, and some people don’t, and I’m not interested in anything coming from those who don’t. Just my preference.”

—Scott Carrier, 2019