Sadness Is Simply Something To Be Treated

I Made This List Of Stuff That It's Time For Me To Try To Do.

There’s Something Really Rich And Powerful In Not Talking About What You Need To Talk About Sometimes.

But That Incessant Drive To Be Out There In The Literary Universe That Was Important To Me When I Was In My Twenties, Like Going To A Paris Review Party Or Whatever, That Seems Totally Irrelevant Now.

Updike Worked This Way, And I Just Kinda Borrowed It From Him. So The Memoir Will Be Relief From Novel Writing For A Moment.

I Sort Of Hate The Novel When It Doesn't Push, Restlessly, Against The Tradition And The Traditional.