It looks like I'm a finalist for the John Dos Passos Prize, and I'm in great company: the other finalists are Sesshu Foster, Linda Hogan, Victor LaValle, Kelly Link, and Crystal Wilkinson!
Honored and flattered. I love Dos Passos.
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I'm happy because The John Dos Passos Prize is awarded to a currently under-recognized American writer. Now when my psychiatrist tells me to stop whining that no one knows who I am, I can say, look, I'm under-recognized, so there, and I can go on whining to my heart's delight.
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Reminds me of this quote from Richard Serra:
"I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said: 'Richard, calm down'."
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IN FACT.... how can someone with 63K followers on Twitter be unrecognized? I hope you win anyway, you'll probably be the only one who's read Dos Passos. Just looking at the typography of a typical page spread in 42nd Parallel makes contemporary students' eyes cross.
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