neal pollack on persona and his experience with mcsweeney’s in this past sunday’s new york times book review (reg req’d).
I can barely remember century’s dawn, before my persona arrived. I had a job, I owed no debt, I rented an apartment, I wasn’t married. My knees didn’t hurt when it rained. Then I got involved with McSweeney’s, which, according to most dictionaries, is an old Gaelic word meaning “trendy literary scene.”
and dave eggers’ response (complete with a response-to-the-response from pollack).
He quotes me as saying, “We’re about to enter a new age of literary celebrity.” When I read this online this morning, I had to re-read it a few times, looking for some postscript that indicated that, as Neal usually does, he had made the quote up. … The quote doesn’t sound like anyone, really—no one would have said something like that, unless they were addressing, in a bad late-’80s TV movie, some kind of misguided depiction of a glitzy (ha!) book-industry convention.
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