from Boston Phoenix, feb 23 1998. Q&A phone interview in advance of his Boston tour for Supposedly. on fiction vs non-fiction, and how he sometimes screws up by being too tell-all in his nonfiction, and footnotes, and the pendulum of fame, and the nonfiction writers who've inspired him (Joan Didion, Pauline Kael, John McPhee, Frank Conroy's Stop Time, Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life, Hardy, Annie Dilliard), and using typewriters