D sent me the
post The New Yorker reviewed my self-published novella and I like how she says, talent isn’t rare and follows it up by saying, I am a very good writer. A short cut without qualifiers that lives the point. I also wished I’d written it and went through my, I’ve been saying this for ages dance with a good sprinkling of fuck and why aren’t I… The truth is at least someone’s saying it, and that it is reaching a wider and wider audience. For instance, this:I believe very strongly in what we are doing here on this platform. I believe that we are creating a better literary world. And this literary world is going to play an increasing role, over the next five years, in determining literary reputations. And I do think more fiction will be published by this world that is worthy of being taken seriously even by those who are skeptical about Substack.
And of course it isn’t just Naomi saying it. We’re all saying it and it doesn’t matter who gets heard, what matters is that it gets heard. But try telling that to my exhausted ego.
Today, I am tired.
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