and also entirely rewritten from first page to last? They did and they took it.īoth I. I said 2 was now Old Friends and unavailable, would you like to see 3, which was now End of I. Then McSweeney's wrote, saying they were starting a new fiction series and they'd like to see 2. character a name, and submitted the work, as Old Friends, to Melville House, which took it in a couple of weeks. So I removed 2 from the trio, rewrote it in its entirety (something I've been doing a lot with my work the last few years), gave the I. They rejected it, they said, because they were cutting back on their fiction. The trio became a duo when McSweeney’s rejected the second voume of the work, then called 2. I didn't merge the last two novels of the I. When and why did you decide to merge them into one, and publish it as End of I.? What happened to the pages you cut-will you integrate them into a new work? McSweeney’s Books published the first volume of the “I.” series, I: A Novel, back in 2002, and at the time, you spoke of two more to come, the last a three hundred-page novel. So we were thrilled to have the chance to ask him a few questions about his latest novel, End of I., how he's built a life around writing, and just what you do when your publisher stops returning your calls. He's as inventive as he is prolific, his work as challenging as it is poignant and funny. Stephen Dixon is an inspiration to writers everywhere.
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