Anyway, on Robyn O’Neil — a full interview with her in the Believer!! Enjoy. There’s a great part where she lies to get her hands on Nabokov’s library archive.

http://www.believermag.com/issues/200811/?read=interview_oneil

I’ve always read her cartoons in The New Yorker, but have never been a huge fan, but I have a newfound respect for her and her work after The Believer interview and this post.

I also just want to note that I have and always will love writing by hand. I almost always have to write by hand first and then transcribe to computer.

there’s always been this sort of romantic notion that enshrouded the act of writing: that one should give up a day job at all costs to succeed, that it’s more noble to be penniless and write than steal away hours from one’s desk job to scratch out a few words. that’s bullshit. i think it’s an easy out. for people like me who can only wrap their heads around trying to be successful at writing, being able to write well and maintain another, completely separate self, seems like quantum mechanics. i can’t do it. if someone else can, all the better. think about all the writers who have been doctors. doctors! chekhov. william carlos williams. more recently? chris adrian. would they’ve be more successful had they given up medicine? maybe, but damn, two of those names are etched in the literary pantheons and adrian is doing one hell of a job in the interim. i don’t think you need to relegate yourself to one or another. it’s a fool’s game. for fools, like me. if you can be successful at whatever and write, well then, you’ve beaten us all in two fields.

I WANNA DANCE!

UM you wanna erase your memory? I suppose that could work… what about reading Ghandi? Do you get anything through on the slightly fuzzy channels…??? Those are my suggestions.