Literary Entrepreneurship
Salon has an interesting interview with Dave Eggers, whose comments on procrastination remind me of some of my blogging bursts. It's hip and trendy to disparage Eggers as overhyped, but he is not only a talented writer but a remarkable entrepreneur, having completely bypassed the literary establishment to create a new one--an accomplishment that struck me when I was reading Michael Chabon's hilarious and penetrating intro to McSweeney's Issue No. 10. (Full disclosure: Dave's brother Bill, who writes good wonky books, is an old friend and former colleague of mine. But I don't know Dave.)