![]() That was keeping me awake at 3am, so I’m glad you asked! Not if I take a Xanax, like I did at 3.30. Will winning a big prize change your relationship to your writing? And you can tell when you’re with honest comic material because you feel uncomfortable, then you’re released through feeling that discomfort. People assume that comedy is avoiding the subject, but when it’s good it looks directly at it. In America, our idea of the great American novel is deeply serious: 800 pages, by a straight white man. Why, in the literary world, are comic novels are often deemed less important than serious ones? So I wrote a book that tackles that, but is about joy. It’s not that I’m not aware of the horrible way the world is. That’s exactly what I was feeling when I wrote Less. ![]() I was reading an article in the New York Times about how fashion needs to be more full of joy. Less is the first comic novel to win the Pulitzer in years. ![]()
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