CHAPTER 3 is online. Is anyone interested in downloadable versions? Like .pdf? PDF versions are now the default.
Take a look to the right of the page. There, under the “More Info” heading, you’ll find links to the text of Lithium. So far I have the first two chapters posted. I’ll let you know as I post additional chapters. Thanks for reading! Edit: Here are the links: CHAPTER 1, and CHAPTER 2.
Ms. Marly Russoff replied with a nice ‘We are not accepting new fiction submissions at this time.’ I’m revising my policy on not writing about agent responses. I don’t imagine agents are googling every submission they receive. (That’s right: I’m unilaterally lower-casing the verb form of ‘Google.’) Seven rejections really is not very many. What …
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Wired News has this story about Japanese novelists who compose via cell phone.
This kind of stuff makes me feel better. Here’s Wallace on the differences between writing fiction and nonfiction: I’ll be honest: I think of myself as a fiction writer. Fiction’s more important for me, so I’m more scared and tense about fiction, more worried about whether I’m any good or not. The weird thing is …
I’ve finished reading Infinite Jest but Infinite Jest has not finished with me. David Foster Wallace’s book has stuck in my head the way few other books have (The Sound and the Fury, V., Gravity’s Rainbow, and London Fields are the others). To paraphrase Wallace (on Infinite Jest, not the others, but to me personally …
