Reflections on the last two years by tcboyle, Viet Than Nguyen, Rachel Kushner, Tom Perrotta, charles_yu, TeaMichelle and DJohnsonWriter.
I had a collection of essays come out during the pandemic, and I did notice that promoting it was a lot easier than it normally would have been. It was just, like, two weeks of being online and then I was done, and selfishly I preferred this more sterile experience to the disorientation of embodying an “author” persona on a book tour, which isn’t part of writing or art and yet can take up a lot of space.
I pursued my obsessive/compulsive occupation as always, with the exception that I still haven’t gotten to go back out into society. I finished the story collection “I Walk Between the Raindrops,” which comes out this year, and began the next novel, “Blue Skies,” which I delivered to my publisher last month. —I cannot wait to go on tour and be back out in the world. During this time I’ve realized that being on tour has given me some of the peak moments of my life.
. Co-founder Sini Anderson and I have gathered a great group of writers, including some who published books during the pandemic and didn’t get the chance to promote them. Really hoping everything will be back to normal enough by then.It’s been bewildering and frustrating and depressing to have lived this way for more than two years, and these pandemic years also felt inevitable, a slow-moving disaster that we saw coming from the start of the previous presidency.
The pandemic didn’t affect my work all that much. What it affected was my brain. I sorely missed going out in public, not where I live but in the larger world, where my release from the confinement of writing is to go out and perform my work before a live audience. Happily, and if Omicron allows it, I will be doing a whole lot of this in the spring, including an appearance at the best book fair of them all — I think you know the one I’m talking about.
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