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David Foster Wallace to his editor re working on The Pale King: he said that working on the novel was “like wrestling sheets of balsa wood in a high wind.” (Quoted in a recent TPK review in the New York … Continue reading →

THINK NOVEL SPLENDID

More random quotes from my five-year-old son Ethan (who won’t be five much longer)… “Everything you see is real. That’s the science term.” “You can only joke on Chinese New Year.” “What the heck is a parsnip?” “Daddy, every day … Continue reading →

“Early on, I was very scared about whether or not I was good enough. I’d been a writer for a very long time, but also, not really. The thing is, I had tried, but not very hard. Because if you … Continue reading →