For this week's OPEN BOOK, author Andrew Ewell debates the existence of “unlikeable characters” and share his favorite literary affairs.
This is OPEN BOOK, a monthly column in which we ask debut authors about their reading and writing habits. Last month, we featured, which follows the unraveling of a writer’s life and the subsequent promise of a bestselling novel born from it. When a dejected creative writing professor’s stopover in Brooklyn leads to an affair with his friend’s wife, the web of entanglements that follow has the potential to give rise to abundant raw material.
It wouldn’t be accurate to say I didn’t like it. But the gender politics have not aged well.Is it? I guess I am toying with a certain literary self-consciousness, although I never wanted to write anything “metafictional,” at least not in the baroque style of a Barth or a Coover. That said, there is a sort of writerly self-awareness—an admission, anyway, that a story is being told—which I do enjoy.Some readers will call him “unlikeable,” but I don’t have much use for that word myself.
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