A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

  • -- Dana Spiotta 达娜·斯皮奥塔

一部好的小说应该是令人深感不安的——它的满足感应该来自它的真实性和形式上的连贯性。我们必须感觉到一些至关重要的事情正处于危险之中。

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My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

我的第一部小说对我自己是个挑战。没有人知道我在做这件事。

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

在巨大的痛苦之后,一种正式的感觉来了。神经像坟墓一样隆重地坐着。

So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing.

于是,我写了一本恐怖小说,开始写作。

I have no formal culinary training, right.

我没有接受过正式的烹饪培训。