I just finished a last pass of edits on a novel that will come out in the fall. It’s called Parasites Like Us. I have a new novel that I’m excited to start, but the urge to write again has yet to strike. Maybe I don’t have anything else to say. Maybe I never had anything to say. Certainly the world would be a more beautiful place if I stopped writing. Certainly the world wouldn’t even notice if I stopped writing. Anyway, that’s the kind of post-novel lull I’m in. Luckily, we have a new baby boy, and I’m spending all my time with him.And I suppose I’m catching up on all the things I didn’t do while writing night and day for two years, like reading and shaving and lawn work.The weed-whacker is fun, and yes, I wear my safety goggles. If I ever see any royalties, I’m going for one of those big-ass chippers.
Adam Johnson
I am working on my next novel, tentatively titled Absurdistan. The plot concerns a creature name Misha Vainberg, a 400-pound disaster of a human being who meets up with Absurdistan, an oil-rich 4,000-square mile disaster of a modern nation state.Things fall apart, the center does not hold. I will be moving for over a year to Italy in October to get the hell away from everything and focus on the novel
Gary Shteyngart
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