i was on fellowship at the new york public library, 19. i decided that i wanted to write a novella length prologue. I had id read om don dalilo's patco at the wall, and just was enamored by it. Ands like ocamlen to do this. So i decided to dedicate my sheltering pandemic time to working on this novel,. or thisis tis opening.
Mitchell S. Jackson is a journalist and author. His profile of Ahmaud Arbery, ”Twelve Minutes and a Life,” won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
”What is 'great'? 'Great' isn’t really sales, right? No one cares what James Baldwin sold. So: Are you doing the important work?”
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