Reflections On Courage, Morality And Sexual Pleasure

December, 2004

Playboy: You stay all year round in Provincetown, Massachusetts now. How is it to live in a place that seems abandoned and bereft in winter? Is it better than during the high season?NM: For a writer of my age, it's better in the off-season. There's an old saying about P-town that in the winter you can roll a bowling ball down Commercial Street and it'll never hit anyone. So it is lonely here in February and March, and mean and cold. It's damp, it's lonely, and I love it. It fits my mood. It's mu...