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Last week i was just someone who had had a first novel published.
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Last Week I Was Just Someone Who

Jon McGregor
Last week i was just someone who had had a first novel published.
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I was first published in the newspaper put out by school of the art institute of chicago, where i was a student. i wince to read that story nowadays, but i published it with an odd photo i'd found in a junk shop, and at least i still like the picture. i had a few things in the school paper, and then i got published in a small literary magazine. i hoped i would one day get published in the new yorker, but i never allowed myself to actually believe it. getting published is one of those things that feels just as good as you'd hoped it would.
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It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. i can do a book of nonfiction work that way - just sign the contract and do the book because, provided the topic has some meaning for me, i know i can do it. but a novel is different. a novel is more like falling in love. you don't say, 'i'm going to fall in love next tuesday, i'm going to begin my novel.' the novel has to come to you. it has to feel just like love.
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I'm a reader of chinese literature, i like their films, but also: i've had great difficulty getting my work published in china; very little of it has been published there. the first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I always was interested in prose. as a teenager, i published short stories. and i always wanted to write the long short story, i wanted to write a novel. now that i have attained, shall i say, a respectable age, and have had experiences, i feel much more interested in prose, in the novel. i feel that in a novel, for example, you can get in toothbrushes and all the paraphernalia that one finds in dally life, and i find this more difficult in poetry.
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Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many times. you know, i think the novel keeps redefining the world we live in. what you should look for in a novel is a window nobody else is looking out of, that nobody else can look through. what you look for is a voice. you pick up a novel by someone such as faulkner or hemingway and you just read three pages and you know who wrote it. and that's what one should demand of a novelist.
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I have never started a novel - i mean except the first, when i was starting a novel just to start a novel - i've never written one without rereading victory. it opens up the possibilities of a novel. it makes it seem worth doing.
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