Support talent. Brilliance. Whatever you care to call it. Dave Eggers, whose memior, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, is a favorite of mine, has self-published his first novel. It's called You Shall Know Our Velocity. You can buy it at the link I just provided.
He gave an interview to the New Yorker about an excerpt from the book that they published as a short story. You can find it here. Eggers combines humor, pathos and a metafictional sensibility to produce readable, important books. He's been accused of overexposure, as this Salon review says, but the talented survive such mass-media nonsense.
This is the archived edition of a blog kept from Nov. 24, 2002, to
Feb. 29, 2004, by Clay Wirestone.
The original description: "From the overstuffed mind of writer,
editor, cartoonist and crank Clay McCuistion comes a blog full of
-- well -- stuff. And things."