Slog - Comments on Belgian Novelist Weirder Than Anyone Would've Guessed http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/belgian_novelist_weirder_than_anyone_wou The Literary Saloon has a link to a Guardian profile of Amélie Nothomb, the Belgian novelist who writes semiautobiographical fiction. Two of her books, The Character of Rain and Fear and Trembling, have been published over here, and they're both lovely little novels. She writes more than gets published over here, though. A lot more: Sixteen published novels represent only a fraction of her prodigious output, however. Nothomb declares herself to be in the middle of her 64th manuscript, having reached a rhythm where she completes three or four manuscripts a year, publishing only those which she feels comfortable sharing... Copyright 2008 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:00:00 -0800 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:02:27 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by elenchos Third Place books sells used up novels? Why? And why would you buy them if they've been used up?

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/belgian_novelist_weirder_than_anyone_wou#c1052626 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/belgian_novelist_weirder_than_anyone_wou#c1052626 Books Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:10:10 -0800 Comment by Jay Wow, a writer of fiction with eccentric affectations and obsessions. Who would have thunk it?

]]> Jay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/belgian_novelist_weirder_than_anyone_wou#c1052664 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/belgian_novelist_weirder_than_anyone_wou#c1052664 Books Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:30:07 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Most real writers express the same thing as she did, just with fancier words.

She's not that unusual.

You write because you have to.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/belgian_novelist_weirder_than_anyone_wou#c1052735 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/belgian_novelist_weirder_than_anyone_wou#c1052735 Books Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:02:27 -0800