Nov 08 2009
Get well…get well soon
That’s incredible–I haven’t done anything with this blog since last May. Oh, how so much has changed. When we left off, I was working as a stock-clerk for a large, and dying, corporate bookseller in sunny ole Austin Texas. I’d arrived a few months earlier on a quest for fortune and glory as a young novelist, but within the first year have achieved little more than a few short articles.
The lit scene in Austin is progressing slowly thanks to the dilligence of a few flame barers. Between the Ransom Center archives and BookPeople and TSU’s library archives, I’ve seen in person writers like Denis Johnson, Jonathan Lethem, William T. Vollmann, Sarah Vowel, etc. etc. and have seen up close original material from Baudelaire to Stoppard, Beckett to Mailer, DeLillo, McCarthy, Faulkner, the Kerouac Scroll–all that good stuff we writers sluff off like dead skin cells. It’s been a better education than I could have ever wanted, but doesn’t much help feed the moths in bank account.
Thought you might like that.