I’m interviewed by Lisa O’Neill for the fabulous Dictionary Project. Read the interview here.

Excerpt:

What can language contain? What can it not ever contain?

Language can contain almost everything, the beginning, the end, the inevitable ruin of a world, the collapse and betrayal of truth, the compacted pain of life and death, but in words, only in words. It can not contain the same permanence of time that film offers, for example. Or the power given to a viewer in the prolonged gaze of a slow-moving herd of cows.