At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.

My master's degree was in English literature.

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.

I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.

People with brains went to New York, and people with faces came West.