Reading aloud is different from just following sentences with your eyes. Something quite unexpected wells up in your mind, a kind of indefinable resonance that I find impossible to resist.

“We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.”

“I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a …”

“Nobody ever recommended or even desired that I be a novelist - in fact, some tr…”

“But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to s…”