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Sorry about the lapse in posts yesterday. I lost heat in my apartment, and everything has been placed on the figurative back-burner while I fix that problem. 

In the meantime, I suggest you read BookForum's harsh, but thoughtful, essay about novelist Paul Auster. Not everybody loves Auster's quiet storytelling style and private detective plots, but reading his books changed my writing style forever. I even wrote a story about it.

For me, the essay reminded me of the best lesson about Auster's life: Don't give up, it's never too late to build a writing career. Check it out...

"He emerged as a genuinely popular novelist and superstar cultural export only after respectable if obscure beginnings as a poet, critic, and translator in the '70s—his story is yet another refutation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's dictum about American lives having no second acts."

Thanks to Steve Bryant for the link.