The Opposite of Fate
“The graphs, similar to records of annual rainfall amounts, represented the relative critical success of each of the authors’ books, a statistical epitaph of sorts. For some, a flood of sudden success—then unrelenting drought, book after book after book.“Isn’t it interesting,” my friend noted, “how many writers went on to write lousy second books?”I never considered that the critics might have been wrong. Instead, I stayed up half the night reading that book, and by morning I had decided that wh...atever those writers had lacked—confidence, stamina, vision, sharp red pencils—I would stock in extra portions. Each of my books, I determined, would outdo its predecessor, increasing in scope, depth, precision of language, intelligence of form, and thus critical acceptance and perhaps even readership.Of course, that’s what I determined before I was published, before The Joy Luck Club ever hit the bestseller list, before I attended my first literary luncheon, where a woman asked me with absolute sincerity, “How does it feel to have written your best book first?”Shortly after the book was published, I was in New York having lunch with my editor, Faith Sale, as well as a friend of hers, another writer, the author of four books.MoreLess
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