that is a wonderful compliment
while your fiction seems to be getting increasingly lean, your essays seem to be moving in the opposite direction.
They're getting denser and denser. There's a whole lot of stuff going on in a piece — you're trying to think it through. Generally, you think about a question or a situation in a more complex way than you would make a scene. Novels are almost like music or poetry — they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.
Obres e trobes en lahors de la Verge María es un libro de singular importancia por ser la primera obra literaria impresa en España. Salió de las prensas de Lambert Palmart el 25 de marzo de 1474 en la ciudad de Valencia, se conserva en la biblioteca de la Universidad de Valencia
Esta obra fue impresa a raíz de que el virrey Lluís Despuig, para honrar a la Virgen, convocara el 11 de febrero de 1474 un certamen poético cuyo tema obligado era alabar a la Virgen María.
El encargado de organizar el certamen fue el poeta mossén Bernat Fenollar, persona relacionada con todos los círculos literarios que había en la ciudad.
Los poemas habían de constar de cinco estrofas, con dedicatoria y estribillo. Pero los trovadores (aún no se llamaba poetas a los que no escribían en latín) tenían libertad en cuanto al estilo y la lengua.
For those unfamiliar with standard procedure for publishing contracts, a book advance is usually split up into three parts, the first of which is handed over to the author upon the signature of the contract. According to tradition, the author takes the money, spends it recklessly on gin and loose women, and wakes up a couple of weeks later with a rotten hangover and the chilling realisation that he is not only now required to write a book, but to deliver it by a particular date. For many writers, who have devoted so many years to dreaming in little garrets/garden sheds/service industry jobs of being published, the reality of actually having to deliver a manuscript can be a terrifying prospect that promptly induces crippling writer's block.
The fact is - as everyone who works in publishing houses or literary agencies knows well, but doesn't advertise, perhaps because it's not the most efficient business practice - there are a surprisingly large number of contracts for unwritten books knocking about in dusty filing cabinets. Editors and authors agree on a book, and then ... well, maybe the author loses enthusiasm, or is distracted by another project or (as was the case of Misses Kim and Brown) goes to prison for a bit.