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| Information Specialist | Small, desktop computer | The series Ten-Year Run. 35 books in ten years. Start The Great American 20,000-Page Novel. See I am writing 40-Year Run. Screed is published, then Common Sense, Full Plate, Blue Darter, and Lost Writings. Then Evil Genius and Open Book. Publishing books instead of chapbooks. Forty is published. My 40th book. I will not have another book published for 18 years, when a small press publishes Bukowski Never Did This: A Year in the Life of an Underground Writer and His Family. That's in the next stage, though. | No single book is a masterpiece, but I have achieved mastery. I am an American master, working at the top of his form. Lots of disappointment, as everything is rejected and I am turned down for grants and prizes, teaching jobs and stays at arts colonies. I get cranky and hung-up about rejection. This was a difficult situation to work through, and come out the other side of. The books are too long, too formless, too short, and too perfectly formed, but formed in a new template, enema vérité: what you see on the end of the fork when you really look. |