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.
1 comment:
Hi, Thanks for reading! ope you're loving the FCI experience as much as I am. Your blog looks like it will be great, I'm so pathetically comp illiterate it sometimes pains me, but I just want to cook and write, and leave the rest to the geeks! All I have to say about chef Nic, is listen hard, work clean, and occasionally laugh if he makes a joke. He's a sweetheart, and his knife skills are immaculate, so watch him work closely whenever you can. Level 3 is very different from 1 and 2 though, so he may have a different set of standards there. He will probably expect you to know what you're doing for the most part, but he is a tolerant and helpful teacher and will answer any question you have. Level 3 is tough, so try to learn the recipes and procedures, and be ready to execute and pay attention to detail. Good luck, and let me know who you are if we haven't met.
Alana
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