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~  “In my dreams, I was inventing literature,” he recalled. Month by month the typescript grew, presaging the weight that the great novel and the “solitude of fame,” as he would later put it, would inflict on him. From 2016, this tale of the history & impact of a book that I (& clearly most […]

Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how…. The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention…. The not-knowing is not simple, […]