The joy of being a [literary] writer today is that you can claim your work's flaws are all there by design. Plot doesn't add up? It was never meant to; you were playfully reworking the conventions of traditional narrative. Your philosophizing makes no sense? Well, we live in an incoherent age after all. The dialogue is implausible? Comedy often is. But half the jokes fall flat? Ah! Those were the serious bits. Make sure then, that your readers can never put a finger on what you are trying to say at any point in the book. Let them create their own text--you're just the one who gets paid for it.
B. R. Myers, A Reader's Manifesto, 2002. This is an outstanding, groundbreaking book.
B. R. Myers, A Reader's Manifesto, 2002. This is an outstanding, groundbreaking book.
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