The Writer’s Life

My essay “The Writer’s Life” was published last week in The Curator. An excerpt:

I had been to a Borders for the first time in high school, surveyed all the books, and pondered the obviousness of the situation: if there were so many books of poor quality, of dubious claims, of frivolous titles and rows of books I found no interest in, it would not be that hard at all to get a book of my own up onto the shelves. Surely there was a place for my own creation, and it wouldn’t even be that hard.

There is also a great piece on mockumentaries, “Meta-Mocks,” by Dylan Peterson, in this weekly edition.