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Words of wisdom (sort of)
The authors
Jonathan Ames
Essayist (I Love You More than You Know) and novelist (Wake Up, Sir!)
Tao Lin
Novelist, poet (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy), blogger
Fiona Maazel
Author of Last Last Chance
Ed Park
The Believer coeditor and author of Personal Days
Christopher Sorrentino
Author of Sound on Sound and the NBA-nominated Trance
Amanda Stern
Curator of the Happy Ending Series and author of The Long Haul
Darin Strauss
Novelist (Chang and Eng and More than It Hurts You)On winning awards
Sorrentino: After I was named a finalist for the National Book Award, I got an e-mail from a friend who wrote, “Congratulations on becoming one of the most hated writers in America.” This is a form of success, I suppose.
Strauss: Of course it helps sales and with the fluffing of one’s ego, and neither of those things are to be underestimated in this often-hard profession. But it can be tough to follow up acclaim; the weight of accolades can pull down on every sentence a novelist writes in his next book. All the same, I’d cut off my pinkie to win the National Book Award. Well—the left pinkie, at least.
Maazel: I imagine getting a big, fancy award is nice and that probably your book sales improve as a result, though for literary fiction, this might mean the difference between having 100 readers and 1,000.
Time Out New York / Issue 669 : Jul 22–30, 2008
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This is an interesting feature and that makes it all the more annoying that it is chopped up into tiny bits and pieces over 8 pages. It's maddening to read and I can't understand why a publication would discourage readers this way. I am not a regular reader of this website and I am not coming back because of this.