So, I'm getting into this "blogging" thing really late. It's almost like if I had started to wear MC Hammer pants in 2001. However, I feel like this will be a better outlet for me to bitch about things than yelling at the dude on the 59th St. subway platform who's always playing the Godfather theme on his steel drum.
Anyway, I figured I'd "bless" my blog by putting in an excerpt of an interview from 'The Believer' magazine between two of my favorite writers: Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, Fever Pitch, About a Boy) and David Simon (HBO's The Wire, The Corner, Homicide). This is David Simon talking about his principles of writing:
"My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture. He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden. Fuck him. Fuck him to hell. "
Yes, indeed.
