Word: fictioneering
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...next literary voice of his generation. It's exactly the kind of over-enthusiastic cliché Wallace was so good at examining and twisting and footnoting into an ironic tangent, and it was that distrust for pat declarations and easy praise that made him such a terrific non-fiction writer...
...what I'd like to do with my life, I'd have said I'd like to write a novel at some point. But then I sort of fell into journalism. I guess sometime after Killing Yourself to Live, I kinda wanted to write long form fiction, and I had an idea for a story and I decided to try. This is retrospective: I've been asked this question many times, and I keep coming up with interesting ways to make up answers...
...difficult was it to transition from non-fiction to fiction...
...harder than I anticipated. I can write non-fiction much, much faster...
...thing about journalism and non-fiction is it's ultimately reactive work: you're reacting to something someone said or did, or placing something in a context for other people. In fiction, you're inventing everything. The creatively exhaustive part isn't the big stuff - having to coming up with the people, or the town - but the really detailed stuff. You're creating a table, and so you have to say how many glasses are on the table, and you have to build the glasses in your mind. In journalism the details are what jump out at you: the strange...