Actually, my mouth is on the small side. In fact, my upper lip is so thin as to be non-existent. So this is just my metaphorical huge mouth. Steve Allan interviews me here. I learned earlier this year that Steve and I share a profound affection/admiration for Roland Merullo. (I am also crazy about Roland's wife and his daughters, who often ate breakfast about the same time as I did when we were all at Writers in Paradise.)

Meanwhile, I've decided that future installments of Espirit d'Escalier should just include my unspoken answers. As in:

"I'm really sorry that the people you 'represent' were offended. I'm also sorry that they can't tell the difference between me, Laura Lippman, and the character, Kevin Infante. And I'm really, really, really sorry that you thought a signing line was an appropriate place to confront me on this matter, given that I'm awfully accessible via the Internet."