The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)

by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Anyway, in a week or two, all of those books would be gone—the not-good ones, the competent but undistinguished ones, even the few that might actually be exceptional—and the New Fiction section would be full of other new novels. Newer new novels. So who even cared?

best for your writing. Anna Williams-Bonner.” Though she usually took a peek first. Of course she did. Life did not offer so many diversions that you could dismiss the available ones, and the entertainment value of truly execrable writing and the endless range of human weirdness, coupled with the kind of delusional self-confidence one associated with twice-impeached ex-presidents, was simply too tempting to decline out of hand.