Writer's Diary
9/22/24
The marketing is never the product. For great art, that's a virtue. And for bad art, it’s what it hopes you'll never notice. I believe the goal, in the long run, is to separate the authentic from the fabricated—the real from the ginned up.
From a recent conversation with a friend. “Nietzsche is homeopathic medicine; you should never dose too highly with Nietzche.”
35 is a strange age. I feel old enough to feel nostalgia for being young; but I’m not old enough to feel old. It’s a kind of backwards looking youth, or forwards looking old age. A pivot point.
As a theater producer, what I bring is a determination to make things work, to keep the show going, no matter what. I know things go wrong, and there's an inherent unevenness in quality. Popularity and interest fluctuate. But I don’t let myself get too caught up in that…1
There's a tendency I've noticed among my generation of male writers to create works on the scale of mid-century postmodernist, neo-systems novels so they can later claim to be misunderstood or ignored, or to argue that the whole publishing system is corrupt…