Word count: 51,392

Over 74,600 participants fell by the wayside. But after typing the last sentence in my novel, I uploaded the document, and was declared one of 15,329 winners. National Novel Writing Month Founder, Chris Baty, wrote on the resulting victor's page that it was one of the hardest years on record.

Then he put a question forward.
"If you ( Read more... )

In Hayden Carruth's introduction to an old favorite of mine, Nausea, he describes existentialism as having entered the American consciousness like an elephant entering a dark room; that if it is a philosophy at all, it is one that has been independently invented by millions of people simply responding to the emergency of life in a modern world. But ( Read more... )