I’m in Key West, teaching a week’s workshop at the Literary Seminar. Title: “Hello, Stranger: Being and Imagining the Other.” We’ll be looking at texts by such fiction/non-fiction heroes as Lucia Berlin, Truman Capote, Bruno Schulz, Joan Didion, Charlie Fox, Rebecca Solnit. And on Wednesday night, January 15th, I’m on a panel with Claire Messud and Francine Prose, addressing the vexed question, “Why Write?”