the unnamable

Digested read - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer:
“I’m nine years old and I’m an inventor, computer consultant, astronomer, historian, lepidopterist, and I write to Stephen Hawking. I’m no ordinary boy, but the creation of a writer who’s trying too hard. That’s why you’ll find doodles, photographs, pages with just a few words on them, blank pages and very small print littered throughout the text.”
Foer said that his “meanest reviews in America were from novelists who don’t have audiences.” (link via tmftml). I guess there are no shortage of audience-starved novelists overseas either.