Q: If your book has a plot and characters, a setting and a theme, it’s a novel.
A: An autobiographical novel.
Q: With interviews instead of poems.
A: With interviews in addition to poems.
Q: A novel, with poems.
A: KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY: A NOVEL, WITH POEMS.
Q: Norman Mailer ended Harlot’s Ghost, “To be continued.”
A: He ran out of time.
I didn’t die.
I will keep going.
Q: If a novel doesn’t kill you it makes you stronger.
A: They wear you away, one by one.
Q: How many is this?
A: 424. John.
I add to the catalogue raisonné of 40-Year Run,
I change the name
of A Poet in His Dotage: A Trilogy to A Poet in His Dotage: The Last
Three Books of 40-Year Run. I see
that the next series of books is not Hurricane
Season: List-Driven Fiction Since
September 1971 but The American
Dream: Self-Publishing Since
Readfest ’76—Before the IBM PC. Books, dates.
Milestones. I guess 424 books in
40 years is a milestone. Without selling
one to