The Kindle route to publishing suggests the tantalizing possibility of writers being able to offer their readers periodic upgrades to the novels they wrote years earlier — a subscribed-to novel that, in theory, advances ever closer to perfection, loses baggy paragraphs, accepts new characters.
In it, he posed a question that was both rhetorical and piercingly immediate: "What is the function, the possibilities, of a writer living under this rumbling volcano?" The volcano was Brink's apartheid homeland, and the proximate cause of the rumbling was a recent, sudden upsurge in black protest and government repression.
"Ms. Doria was the first to awaken me to the possibility of being a writer," said Ms. Palumbo, who also took three years of Latin with Ms. Dente.
I am at a point where I want to explore the possibility of being a writer who is deeply mindful of the importance of taking care of people, and holding them in a way that isn't harmful.
Over the past month the Chinese press has become increasingly vocal about the possibility of a Chinese writer taking the award, with commentors equating "bagging the prize to Chinese literature gaining the world's recognition".
That perception does not fully take into account the other factor at play in the discussions: The looming possibility of strikes by writers and actors later this year.
—Idoru A "sublime" book, according to aerialmeg, Infinite City is "a collaborative atlas of San Francisco, including essays and maps ranging from Monarch butterflies to Hitchcock's films to blues clubs, and makes a terrific guide map to the city's possibilities", in the words of writer Anisse Gross.
He said he was friends with J.D. Salinger and lured Kirn to New England with the possibility of meeting the famous writer (who of course never materialized).
There's a possibility always worth considering in cases of "writer's block": could it be that you've said all you have to say?
For a certain brand of writer, a third possibility is eminently more appealing, one in which the ecological devastation of American-style capitalism sets off The Crisis that will at last devour titans, dinosaurs and cockroaches alike.
