Words of wisdom (sort of)

Your personal definition of success

Strauss: Looking at your book after it’s been out for a year and not cringing when you find yourself scanning it for a reading.

Sorrentino: Not having to send out those damned SASEs with each submission and then wait six months to get rejected.

Maazel: When someone whose aesthetic and sensibility I admire says something kind about my work, and means it.

Park: I’d like to write—and publish—more books. That’s all, really; I couldn’t ask for anything more.

Ames: For me, success would be to not hate myself after doing shameful things. And real success would be to not do shameful things at all or at least not consider things to be shameful. Something like that.

Stern: I consider waking up in the morning an achievement.

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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)

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Time Out New York / Issue 669 : Jul 22–30, 2008

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