New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

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I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

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I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.

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Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

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Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

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My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

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I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.

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Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.

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I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

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Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.

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