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“I live about 60 miles northwest of New York City, and whenever there’s news of a big snowstorm coming, everyone runs for the store. The perishable items are usually the first things to go, which doesn’t make sense because they perish.”
“I had finished the first draft of ‘Life As We Knew It’ before Katrina hit, and it was startling to see things I wrote about actually happening in the real world.”
“A lot of my YA novels are about family problems.”
“What interests me more than dramatic heroics are the domestic things: How do people do laundry and find food when the world is about to end?”