Things Getting Better? Go Nuts, Says Kevin Barry!

 I managed to get the laundry done yesterday. And I got an email out to the trust's attorney complaining about the shoddiness of her discovery response. I added a couple of footnotes to the article. Then it was off to bed before 9 P.m.

Then I woke up at 1 AM and couldn't get back to sleep for an hour. I guess I fell back to sleep. It is 5:17 right now and I need to get ready for work.

I did read The Supreme Court Gives the President the Power of a King. Appalling decision - the best reason to vote for Biden is knowing he will not take up the Supreme Court's decision. Not conservative in any real meaning of the word, but then MAGA is radical right-winger fantasies.

Over my breakfast of hummus, I read Kevin Barry on Reimagining the Novel: “You Can’t Be Afraid to Go Nuts on the Page”. There is a goal for me.

I love writing novels; they’re so hard, and I love trying my hand at them, but I think I’m quite a different writer in the two forms. In story writing, I’m mostly in the realm of realism. It’s often a heightened comic realism, but it’s still realism. With novels, I’m really interested in bringing in genre notes, and I’m really interested in writing novels that can be read quickly. I want to write the three-hour novel, the novel that’s a really intense experience for the reader, that they sit down to read like they’d sit down to watch an epic film. Or a really good play. You sit down and you’re plunged into this world, and you’re trapped, and you have to read it in a sitting. I’m trying to take a lot of the traditional furniture of the novel away. Because we’ve changed as readers, and we’re processing stories in very different ways, and I don’t think writers are as engaged with that as they should be.

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