Then we have this revealing interview done by website Days of Yore this past summer with Believer editor Heidi Julavits about her profound struggles becoming a writer after Dartmouth.
http://www.thedaysofyore.com/heidi-julavits/
I like the part where Heidi talks about an American economic recession being a liberating experience. "Totally liberating." I write this on the edge of downtown Detroit, on the 19th floor of a somewhat rundown old hotel. From the window I see all kinds of "liberated" individuals, including a guy in rags and a wheelchair who sleeps-- and lives-- in the doorway of an abandoned building right down the street. All I can see right now is the bundle of rags and coverings. The man is about as liberated as you can possibly be liberated.
But it's an amusing interview. Like, her boyfriend, an aspiring businessman, was studying the Japanese sword. Okay? Like, wow.
Or the part where Heidi can't remember an incident which appears in her own, recently completed novel. Okay? No doubt she's simply absent-minded, in all connotations of the phrase. (Like, absent of mind.) I do suspect, based on the level of thought in the self-absorbed interview, that Heidi had a lot of editorial help with the book. Isn't that why the skyscraper bureaucracies of the monopolistic book giants, with their staffs of well-paid help, are so great?
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