Reflections of a working writer and reader
To publish a work of novel length, one must find...some means of satisfying the ordinary reader's first requirement for any piece of writing longer than fifteen pages, the sense that things are moving, getting somewhere, flowing forward. The common reader demands some reason to keep turning the pages. Two things can keep the . . . reader going: argument or story. John Gardner, On Becoming A Novelist
Norman Mailer, the two-times Pulitzer prize winner who was a dominating presence on the US literary scene across seven decades, has died today, his editorial assistant said. He was 84.
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