[Note: Part 1 is here.] 25. Novels are hard, not like diamonds but like fate, the choice you make that reveals it was never a choice at all. 26. Then it is the novel as jailer. You in a small dark room with no answers to any of your questions and no one seems to [...]
Entries from January 2010
January 22, 2010
100 Things About A Novel, Pt. 1
Sometimes music is needed. Sometimes silence. This is probably because a novel is a piece of music, like all written things, the language demanding you make a sound as you read it. Sometimes I have written them on subways, missing stops, like people do when reading. It begins for me usually with the implications of [...]
