Here’s a helpful list for New York freelancers who need to write a needlessly alarmist newspaper piece about what may be killing the novel. So if you’ve run out of ideas and don’t quite know an angle, here are some casuistic ideas for your future pitches! Remember, if you collect a check from any of these ideas, I’m only asking 5%. Be sure to send a check to me within 45 days after the piece runs. Good luck and Allah’s speed!
- Global warming
- David Hasselhoff
- Sudoku puzzles
- People who are really into Settlers of Catan
- Tao Lin
- The bottled water industry
- Right-wing French joggers
- Waffles and pancakes
- Men who leave the toilet seat up
- Women who leave the toilet seat up
- Pet dogs who have been trained by their masters to keep the toilet seat up with their paws
- Marxists
- Eucharists
- Tom Cruise (or any famous Scientologist, really)
- Eco-friendly organic pizzeria owners
- Pot smokers
- Golfers
- Matt and Daniel Mendelsohn
- Lev and Austin Grossman
- Edward Champion
- Killroy
© 2007, Edward Champion. All rights reserved.
Surely it’s novels that are killing the novel.
Readers are killing the novel, one word at a time.
“Lev and Austin Grossman
Edward Champion”
Why do you guys hate America so much?
And does this reason help pick up chicks?
I’m still a bit boggled by the furor in France over Sarzoky’s sweaty jogging. I have underestimated his skills if he really is using it to spread his right-wing propaganda. I vote for him as the murderer. (V.S. Naipaul should be up there too.)
You forgot:
video
radio
iPods
the iPhone
Harry Potter
The internet
The blurring of fact and opinion by bloggers in Terre Haute
Hillary Clinton
Gordon Brown
Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Sumner
I heard that you and your band threw out your novels and bought quills–you’re gonna make a Shakespeare play.
you can use the asian angle on me also
asian + destroying the novel
Definitely not the pot smokers… They’re too busy thinking about writing novels to kill any…that, an eating a lot of Oreos…
Boing Boing.
They’re not killing it fast enough.
Novelists are killing the novel now, but only because publishing is killing the novelist. And believe me, they started it. This is no chicken-egg thing. http://www.literaryrejectionsondisplay.blogspot.com