Status Updates From Portrait of the Writer as a...

“Then, adjusting his glasses with a nervous hand, Mark Leyner outlined his proposal. He was looking for financial backing in order to create a secret society that would work to shake up the mindlessness of the masses by holding poetry events whose negative power would strike violently at their imaginations and create unprecedented levels of mass hysteria, thus systematically deconstructing liberal logic.”

"My artistic nature, I repeated hopelessly, my artistic nature doesn't make me...what exactly? A ghost writer? An apostle? Hagiographer? Sycophant? Bookkeeper of Free Enterprise?" So, sort of depressing so far.

So far, another great Lydie Salvayre novel!