A few months on, he is now "at an awkward juncture, because the book could absolutely flop, and I'm quite sanguine about that.
This is the idea that an older self, settled, seasoned and wise, meets a younger self, fresh and impatient, at the common juncture of a book.
In describing the long, painful process by which Saroyan reached this juncture, Mr. Leggett's book lives up to an assessment in this biography's introduction.
It takes Mr. Faber 169 fast-flying pages to reach this juncture; the rest of the book is about what happens to Sugar when she enters the world of bourgeois propriety as William's mistress.
It sort-of worked too: it was the blog that got me my most recent gig at the Guardian, which in turn lead to me writing for TechCrunch, where I take obvious delight in plugging the book at every possible juncture.
"They said I'm not Georgia's brother," he tells Mark and Lorraine after this happens, at one of the book's most melodramatic junctures.
The one place where these two otherwise unique books meet is a tender juncture we can all recognize: separation anxiety.
"She was the scissors," the book says hauntingly at one such juncture.
The book reads like something at the juncture of literary fiction and a domestic thriller; Colapinto's facility with language allows for passages of evocative description and insight, but it's not sustained throughout the novel at a high level.
Hammersmith Apollo, Thursday This Is Grime With Stormzy, Kano and the star of this very issue, Skepta, inarguably breaking through to the mainstream, it seems an apposite juncture for the tale of grime to be told in handsome book form.
