"She wrote it in three weeks, chiefly as a provocation to the novelist Jonathan Franzen, and sold it,..."

“She wrote it in three weeks, chiefly as a provocation to the novelist Jonathan Franzen, and sold it, for three hundred dollars, to a tiny publishing house, Dorothy, which focusses on books by or about women.”

- Nell Zink’s Improbable Literary Life. I’m reading “Freedom” right now, finally. A hard come down after finishing the third Ferrante. This could be a light at the end of the tunnel? (via winesburgohio)