Ten Favorite Books About Failing to Write a Book
(alphabetically by author, with a soundtrack by Joe Henry)
The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
Document 1 by François Blais
The Summer of the Elder Tree by Marie Chaix
All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost by Lan Samantha Chang
Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero
A Devil Comes to Town by Paolo Maurensig
Barley Patch by Gerald Murnane
The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg
— November 16, 2021