Excellent interview, Jenny. I want to read Jeremy's novel now. And I want to read yours!
I reviewed the Graydon Carter memoirs on my Substack this month. While I thought it was entertaining enough, it's amazing how little he's considered his actions in life beyond making money, meeting celebrities, and opening restaurants. That's how someone ends up with an all-white editorial staff at Spy, The New York Observer, Vanity Fair, and Air Mail!
hi! can relate to everything written, especially the idea of writing some essay and being like could that be a book and then realizing oh no it is definitely not a book. and the pleasures of fiction are the best pleasures! why wouldn't that be the dream? heck there are even wild bestsellers that I definitely was like no, why are you a book, so much of it is about minutia that I didn't care about because the writer was just a normie and the part that was originally a New Yorker article is the only good part!
"To me, that’s the sign of a good idea: It’s one that only gets more exciting the more that you think about it." So many nuggets like that in this interview. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent interview, Jenny. I want to read Jeremy's novel now. And I want to read yours!
I reviewed the Graydon Carter memoirs on my Substack this month. While I thought it was entertaining enough, it's amazing how little he's considered his actions in life beyond making money, meeting celebrities, and opening restaurants. That's how someone ends up with an all-white editorial staff at Spy, The New York Observer, Vanity Fair, and Air Mail!
hi! can relate to everything written, especially the idea of writing some essay and being like could that be a book and then realizing oh no it is definitely not a book. and the pleasures of fiction are the best pleasures! why wouldn't that be the dream? heck there are even wild bestsellers that I definitely was like no, why are you a book, so much of it is about minutia that I didn't care about because the writer was just a normie and the part that was originally a New Yorker article is the only good part!
not to jinx myself, but many such cases...
"To me, that’s the sign of a good idea: It’s one that only gets more exciting the more that you think about it." So many nuggets like that in this interview. Thanks for sharing.
yes, love this part and felt very energized by this!
Agreed, I just wrote this exact thing in my latest post.
As another former journalist working on a fiction manuscript I loved reading this!