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I asked him about this once. The primary reason it was structured the way it was, was that he wanted to write a novel but couldn't get any publishers to take hi
by defen 5y ago
I asked him about this once. The primary reason it was structured the way it was, was that he wanted to write a novel but couldn't get any publishers to take him seriously as an author. They only wanted a memoir, so he published a metafictional one.
- cool_dude85 5y agoHe also claimed at one point on twitter to be writing a novel under a pen name. Wonder if that's true and if it'll ever be outed, if so.
- a_bonobo 5y agoSimilarly, he once met 'with the world's greatest novelist', 'He sees noone', but wouldn't say who: https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/899367320006443008?lang=en https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/899367320006443008?... It could've been Thomas Pynchon or it could've been Cormac McCarthy, and now we might never know.
- defen 5y agohttps://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/953794118139826176 https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/953794118139826176 (Terence Keane was the "ghostwriter" of his novel)