Fascinating lesson on how to be a writer (too) - genesis of his first and his most recent novel. How small temptations add up to something more substantial with many stops and re/starts & how one theme can create an arc for a whole writing life. I recognize that "resistance to hard work" & the routine triumph over that same resistance. To ponder: "Form is a way to warp something right away...it is pliable and ideological". Metafictional playful parallels to Beckett and realism from Kafka. Realism re-grounded.
I'm 3/4 through Origin of the Brunists and loving it. Coover is GREAT.
Awesome to hear about Melville and Pynchon helping him finish that first novel.
Fascinating lesson on how to be a writer (too) - genesis of his first and his most recent novel. How small temptations add up to something more substantial with many stops and re/starts & how one theme can create an arc for a whole writing life. I recognize that "resistance to hard work" & the routine triumph over that same resistance. To ponder: "Form is a way to warp something right away...it is pliable and ideological". Metafictional playful parallels to Beckett and realism from Kafka. Realism re-grounded.
..he .read (in his writings) too much (into) Bible IMO.