Q: I think it's ironic that you take the name for the genre you invented, daily typewriting, from what Truman Capote said about Jack Kerouac, "That's not writing, it's typing," and what Milt Jackson said about Dizzy Gillespie, "Every time I hear Diz play, I think: `He was just now developing into what you heard tonight.'"

A: Capote put Kerouac down because he felt like he was in competition with him.

Inventing the nonfiction novel made Truman Capote famous.

In Cold Blood sold.

But he became famous on the blood of Hickock and Smith and the Cutter family, and knew it, and was tormented about it. In Cold Blood was what he did to them. Cold bloodedly.

Kerouac didn't do that.

Now, Kerouac was briefly famous.

But he wasn't famous in the seven years between the publication of The Town and the City and the publication of On the Road, and he wasn't famous anymore when he wrote Vanity of Duluoz. He was washed up.

He wrote a good book washed up.

Capote just appeared on talk shows, drunk.

I didn't just invent a form to present my stack in: I wrote my stack.

I didn't let rejection stop me.

Indeed, I abjured publication, if not on my terms. I held out for my terms.

I disappeared up my own asshole.

As Bob Black said, "To Jack Saunders, who has achieved closure."

I achieved closure.