Not-Floundering Friday #3: On the Fantasy and Reality of Literary Stardom
Cold Truths, Survival Tactics, and Warm Blankets for Surviving (and Loving) the Writing Life
In last Friday’s Not-Floundering discussion, my former student, Antonio Stefan, noted some disquieting feelings of self-recognition when reading Carmen Maria Machado’s comments about how the dream of literary stardom can overwhelm the desire to do the actual work.
The thing is, though, I don’t know any writer— of any age, or, even more importantly, at a…