![]() ![]() It may be that tonight we will have left-overs. It is elegant and alluring-the best sort of cover. Along with the copy-edited manuscript came a mock up of the cover. I am quite fond of it, especially of the characters, who I love but get to torment, and Knopf is enthusiastic also. Both are part of a trilogy entitled The Last Hundred Years, which tracks the lives of three generations of an Iowa family, beginning in 1920 and ending in 2019. I am not writing anything just now-when I finish going over copy-edits, I will do a final rewrite of my novel Early Warning, a sequel to Some Luck, which is scheduled for April 2015. The second is to read more Gary Shteyngart, in preparation for an interview I am doing with him, on stage in LA in mid-January. The first of these is to go over the copy-edited manuscript of my novel Some Luck, to be published in October of 2014 (I am trying to talk them into publishing it on my birthday, September 26th). The work will, of course, get done-at the moment I have two literary tasks. ![]() When I get up in the morning, the first two questions I have to answer are “What’s for dinner?” and “When should I go to the barn?” The rest of the day revolves around these important issues. Annie Dillard wrote, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” On the first of each month, Catching Days hosts a guest writer in the series, “How We Spend Our Days.” Today, please welcome writer Jane Smiley. ![]()
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