Second Book Update:
So I haven’t been talking about a lot of career stuff here lately and wanted to bring you all up to date.
About a week and a half ago, my agent asked for the in-process proposal for my second book which I handed to him. The book is a case study/analysis (a la Gladwell or Freakanomics) exploration of this generation of American Jews, people in their 20s and 30s and their role in shaping American Judaism’s future.
So Agent Jud spends some time with the proposal and advises me to revise, putting less emphasis on the growing coolness of Jewish culture (see Braff, Zack, Stewart, John and the Jewish Fashion Conspiracy) and more on how this, the third generation of Jews born in America, is shaping our collective fates. He also recommended I write the opening chapter and one sample chapter. He said I should have completed these tasks by summer
Yow. That means this do a min-dry run of what I’ll be doing for the next 2 years if we can sell this thing. It’s exciting yes but a cold splash of reality too. Summer’s only four months away and I ain’t exactly snoring in the basement waiting for it to arrive.
Being an author is great. First you gotta write some books. Obvious yes, but now its time to hit the sidewalk. Wish me luck.
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Sounds like a book I’d want to read. I only take exception with your statement “the third generation of Jews.” Jews have been in the US for 350 years now, don’t forget. Personally, I’m fifth generation.
Sounds like a book I’d want to read. I only take exception with your statement “the third generation of Jews.” Jews have been in the US for 350 years now, don’t forget. Personally, I’m fifth generation.
Kevin, great to finally get some specifics. I’ll be happy to hear your harebrained theories over a Shiner in Austin a few weeks from now…(by any chance do the Beastie Boys make an appearance in your proposal?)
Kevin, great to finally get some specifics. I’ll be happy to hear your harebrained theories over a Shiner in Austin a few weeks from now…(by any chance do the Beastie Boys make an appearance in your proposal?)
you non-fiction writers… you’ve got it all. you can sell a book -before- you write the whole thing.
we fiction writers can always cry harder-core-than-thou, in the basement with our can of beans and dirty wool pulled low over the ears.
good luck, anyway.
you non-fiction writers… you’ve got it all. you can sell a book -before- you write the whole thing.
we fiction writers can always cry harder-core-than-thou, in the basement with our can of beans and dirty wool pulled low over the ears.
good luck, anyway.
Its an unfair world, yes. But I’m never going to show up in the Paris Review talking about “my process.” We make tradeoffs.
Its an unfair world, yes. But I’m never going to show up in the Paris Review talking about “my process.” We make tradeoffs.