The Novelist, by Jordan Castro, is a novel about a pre-novelist—in other words, it is a book about someone in the process of writing a novel. Castro’s novel is a glimpse into the fleeting digressive thoughts and introspective moments of the unnamed pre-novelist, ranging from Weird Al Yankovic lyrics to Instagram stories of men with ‘thick necks’ to Kierkegaard to reflections on addiction and human will, as he attempts to write over the course of a single morning—the entire book spanning from 8:14 am to approximately 10:30 am.
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