The Quote Real World
is many things, including
this short fiction recently published in the adventurous and excellent new journal 128 Lit
and an excerpt from a novel-in-slow-(illusory)-progress.
As everyone knows, in America, one cannot be a novelist and make a living at it. There are various ways around this predicament, but all—except private wealth, suicide, or crime—require day jobs. Some choose to be critics (“eunuchs at the orgy”); most choose to be professors (teaching what?), and a few get the questionable privilege of becoming the script doctors, inspiration to, or simply brand of, a movie or stream show.
Me? At the time we’re talking about, I was still young, in my late twenties. I thought I was hot shit but was making a living (barely) as a part-time dog walker and take-out-food courier. I fancied myself a writer…
Read the rest here: https://www.128lit.org/eugene-lim
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