Q: Where does a book like WRITING STORIES go?

A: It depends on what happens.

I ended AT THE HOUSE when my old recruiter contacted me about going back to work, as a temp.

If I go back to work, as a temp, WRITING STORIES will begin a new series.

Q: What's the series called?

A: 818.5203 Sau: American Literature in English, Miscellaneous: Diaries, Journals, Notebooks, Reminiscences.

Q: What if the job falls through, or you sell a book?

A: "Writing Stories" will go on the end of AT THE HOUSE.

Q: Do you expect to sell a book?

A: What book?

Q: Isn't Melville House looking at a manuscript?

A: Yes. The first two parts of HOUSEHUSBAND: A CORRESPONDENCE NOVEL, "Workingman's Blues No. 2" and "Work."

Q: Don't you have query letters out on AT THE HOUSE?

A: Yes, to University Press of Florida, Pineapple Press, Copper Canyon Press, University of Tampa Press, Malaga Baldi, and Kirsten Wolf.

Q: So you dangle.

A: One dangles. Yes.

One presses on.