From the Editor E-Mail Hall of Shame. So I’m “too good for” Thought Catalog, which pays me well, but you don’t plan to pay me at all? Awesome!
Last Saturday night, I was reading Joyce Carol Oates’s beautiful novel Little Bird of Heaven. JCO is probably my favorite contemporary author, and whenever I’m reading her books, my mind starts racing with ideas for my own fictive projects at a rate that few of my other favorite authors can match. I also read her books about nine times more quickly than any other books. It seems wrong to put them down, once they are begun.
While I was reading, I made this note on my iPad, a note for a novel that I am in the early stages of writing and whose shape I am still trying to figure out. The idea that this note addresses is not addressed explicitly in Little Bird of Heaven, but it evidently inspired me to think about it. I won’t say anything more for fear of spoiling the plot of LBoH. Here is my note as it appears in Evernote:
THEN! Last night, I went on Twitter and saw these two tweets from Oates:
And I proceeded to lose my mind.
As expected, JCO’s thoughts about this concept are infinitely, spine-tinglingly better than my own.”To underestimate is tragic while to overestimate is only farcical.” Yes. YES.
I am pissed that NYMag only considered Philip Roth and (vaguely) Don DeLillo in their Greatest Living Author feature. The answer is obviously Joyce Carol Oates, with Don a close second.
If you can leave when you need to, or leave when you must, home is not really home.
Nine Brooklyn Writers and How They Work | Brooklyn Abridged
Things learned:
-Emily St. John Mandel stands and puts her computer on some random boxes and books (pictured)!
-J. Courtney Sullivan types with ONE FINGER!
-The Internet is apparently distracting.
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Cover Story is my book, and it’s out today! It’s 14 short stories that nobody has ever seen before. For now, it’s available in traditional form, and will soon be available as an eBook. It costs $14, which includes shipping (unless you live outside the U.S., in which case shipping is $4).
This book happened because of Kickstarter and the people who gave to the project and wrote about it on their websites and blogs and on Twitter and Facebook and elsewhere. I am grateful to every person who blogged, retweeted, liked, reblogged, commented and donated. It not only made sure the thing was funded, but it quashed all my doubts about whether I could actually do the thing. So thank you, and I hope you enjoy it.
Wrote a treatise on Tunnel of Love in an attempt to get it out of my head, doubtful.
My book of stories, Cover Story, is done!
It will be released on June 19, just in time for you to warm your hands by the campfire with it.
Go here for some more fake and real covers made especially for my Kickstarter sugar daddies and mommies.
Hello, I went to the Jelly Belly factory in Fairfield, CA, and also attempted to find out the entire list of what is in a Jelly Belly, but did not succeed.
He has a publicist who probably has dreams about him every night.
