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First Person is about the strangeness of writing, its costs, its impossibility. Maybe it’s also an argument for the truth of which novels speak. Perhaps it is about the necessity of such truth in our age when the very idea of truth is itself under attack.
But who can say?
Certainly not the writer. Reading is ever a more intelligent and creative act than writing, which is why the novel is about a ghostwriter who has been hired to write the memoir of a con man, only to discover it is his own life being rewritten.
It has been suggested I could prepare a playlist of songs that influenced
First Person. More interesting to me is the music I am listening to now, early in the stages of composing a new novel...