Alex Kudera’s award-winning novel, Fight for Your Long Day (Atticus Books), was drafted in a walk-in closet during a summer in Seoul, South Korea. Auggie’s Revenge (Beating Windward Press) is his second novel. His numerous short stories include “Frade Killed Ellen” (Dutch Kills Press), “Bombing from Above” (Heavy Feather Review), and “A Thanksgiving” (Eclectica Magazine).
Friday, July 26, 2024
inversely correlated
"I began to use this metric as another informal [literary] quality litmus test: how big an entourage [the novelist] turned up with was often inversely correlated with the [quality of her book]. [One author] always had a large team in tow. Not only that, we knew about her visits weeks ahead of time, because her security detail sent a team of bomb-sniffing dogs well ahead of each one."
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