This Week in the Mercury
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Books Cheer Up, Losers.
Posted by Alison Hallett on Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:44 AM
Age at which Wallace Stevens published Harmonium, his first book of poetry: 44.Age at which George Saunders published CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: 38.
Age at which Janet Malcolm published her first book, In the Freud Archives: 46.
Age at which Norman Rush published his first novel, White: 53.
Age at which Alice Munro published her first collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades: 37.
See? You're not all washed up... Yet. More at The Rumpus.
And! Related! George Saunders FINALLY has a new collection due out in January. (Now, where's my new Sam Lipsyte at?)
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