why worry about our culture

Q

How would you describe the kind of interaction you see

       between what you do as a publisher,

 a professor and a non-fiction writer,

 and what it is you're up to as a fiction writer?

 

A

Down with phony distinctions.

 I'm not a novelist & publisher, etc.

--I'm an always emerging wordturd--

it's all part of the same braunschweiger--

chop off a bit to fry up as an essay,

 another bit to boil as a press release,

a hunk slowly roasted as a novel,

and if you keep moving maybe they won't catch you

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