Munro
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Self-Publishing: On the Dignity of Small Audiences, Part II
Previously we wrote about the small readership Alice Munro had for the first fifteen years of her publishing career. Next up: William Carlos Williams (of “The Red Wheelbarrow” fame) whose 1935 collection of poems An Early Martyr sold just eight copies its first year. Recall my modest goal for my novella (available now!): just ten copies Continue reading
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Great Novella Tournament of Champions: Interim Update
Readers, rest assured! I’m busy working on the next installment of The Great Novella Tournament of Champions. A sneak preview: two more heavyweights, a German vs. a Russian. You. Will. Not. Be. Disappointed. And after that: Will the brilliant protege knock off the Old Master? We shall see. In my Alice Munro Nobel afterglow (evidenced Continue reading
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Self-Publishing: On the Respectability of Small Audiences
I was still feeling the afterglow of the Alice Munro announcement, so I headed over to Munro’s Paris Review interview. One of the things I was struck by was her description of the first fifteen years or so of her career: MUNRO I was about thirty-six [when my first book came out]. I’d been writing Continue reading
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Congratulations, Alice Munro!
Munro is a very deserving author indeed, who has not only given great insight and pleasure to her readers, but has been a model and inspiration for so many authors, perhaps especially those of shorter-form fiction. Like Borges, she has shown that rich fictional worlds can be created in the span of a few pages. Continue reading
Jacke Wilson 