Although I did admire David Foster Wallace’s final …– Chris Pavone
Although I did admire David Foster Wallace’s final unfinished novel about boredom, I’m no DFW, and I want my books to be exciting, not boring.
Although I did admire David Foster Wallace’s final unfinished novel about boredom, I’m no DFW, and I want my books to be exciting, not boring.
Before I wrote my first novel, ‘The Expats,’ I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random House, Workman, and
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Having ‘The Expats’ not be ‘wholesale-y’ rejected by the world made it possible for me to write the second book and have a publisher buy
After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn’t in a position to bet everything on a creative-writing
A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important decisions about any
Sometimes, I had very little – if any – idea for whom I was really working: at the end of the day, who reaped the
After years of working on books, I eventually took a more business-oriented job, for the same sorts of reasons that most people take most new
I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and a small ad
Expats are a self-selecting group of outgoing, confident people – if you’re not those things, you probably don’t choose this adventure – and the lifestyle
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