A Debut Novelist's Ten Years of Solitude
Charles Bock's latest (and first) novel, Beautiful Children, is about living and being lost in Las Vegas. Called "one of the most-anticipated debut novels in years," it's getting red-carpet treatment at the NYT, including a NYT Magazine profile. The hype for what sounds like an interesting book already has people asking Galleycat who Bock's "damn rabbi" is. We're not sure however, how civilized it is to boast about working so hard on your novel. Even if they are a total bitch to write, everybody wants to think of them as effortless endeavors that spring lightly from your soul. To wit:
Truth is I worked on this novel for 10 years. Not ten years of watching Seinfeld at 11 PM. Ten years of a high priority in my life. When I was dating the woman who is now my wife, I would only go out with her two nights a week because I couldn't give more time to that. [EMusic]
