As an artist, you're usually rewarded for putting fresh wrapping paper onto the same old thing

ANGST!

The problem with the genre world's interminable carping over how we're being ignored by the literary world is that it distracts us from a much more important, fruitful, and interesting conversation about what kind of stuff we ought to be writing.

We never talk about how ambitious we ought to be. Instead, the rhetoric is all about following your he…