Questions for today's readers

• Ayers

• You mention in “Bear Candy” that your body begins to change tempo given a change of place. Is this something that you find happens naturally? Did you develop a schedule for yourself, or does your time in Massachusetts seem to organize itself? Does one biorhythm feel more “natural” than the other?
• Would you say that solitude has made you more of an introvert, or maybe more made you comfortable with your introverted side? I was surprised to read that after a while you had to remind yourself to be sociable. Were you aware of this shift while it was happening, or was it a sudden realization?

• Bakken

• In Chapter 5 (Meat), you're writing about something very specific: one kind of noodle at one restaurant on one section of an island off Greece. What challenges did you face while writing this, knowing that so much would be foreign/new to the majority of your readers (the language, the food, the landscape)?
• On the other hand, in Chapter 1 you write about Greece as a whole. You make a few generalizations (Greeks will want to eat with you) and you qualify others ("I don't know if all Greeks are like this..."). What advice would you give to writers attempting to survey a whole place and its people like this? What should we watch out for?

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