Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad has diagrams. Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy gets really meta and folds in on itself. Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine is a whole novel about a man’s internal monologue during a short lunch break. Yellow? Wait on it.” Sorry, we don’t make the rules!ĭon’t be afraid to break from conventional structure. Well, no more! Adopt Nick Miller’s strategy for book-buying: “You see a red book, you buy a red book. Your TBR pile teeters dangerously beside your bed, threatening to crush you at any moment.
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You go home with a very full Joan Didion tote bag and more books than you can ever read in a lifetime. Make rules for yourself when it comes to curating your personal library. Tell me if this sounds familiar: you step into your favorite local independent bookstore, and you lose all sense of self-control. Trust the process. If that means literally throwing words (magnets) at the wall (refrigerator) and seeing what sticks, have at it! (Why is there a magnet that says “feces”? I’m sorry we don’t have time to answer all your questions today!) The ultimate procrastination or valuable life experience? You decide! Basically what I’m saying is: you can get drunk at the zoo to feel closer to Hemingway. For Nick Miller, the Ideal Writer is Ernest Hemingway on Safari.
What are they doing in your mental image of them? Do exactly that. If you’re in a rut, think about the writers you admire. Here is what I’ve learned from ole Nick Miller. In my own attempts at procrastination, I have just finished my sixth rewatch of New Girl. What I mean to say is: he’s so, so relatable in his desire to be a writer, coupled with his deep disdain for writing. There are days when he would rather destroy his laptop or hitchhike to Chicago than sit down and put words on the page. But what makes Nick Miller such a treasure? He’s lazy. He’s hands-down one of the greatest fictional writers of our time. By night, he’s the author of Z is for Zombie and, most notably, The Pepperwood Chronicles. By day, he’s a cranky bartender at a failing establishment.
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