Death in Life, Life After Death, and the Novelist

by Barry Blumenfeld

Issue No. 125 ~ October, 2007

"...To be an ambitious writer--I am one--is to be involved in all sorts of troubles particular to the category, including the ones I've mentioned. I will not be advising you how to cope with them. I don't know how to cope with them. What I do is suffer them, like everybody else."