Rushdie references the experience of Samuel Richardson, who serialised his novel Clarissa in 1748. It will be a digital experiment in serialising fiction (“the way used to be published, right at the beginning”) with new sections coming out approximately once a week over the course of about a year, he says.Ī surprising number of the classics were originally serialised: Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers is the best known example, but there are also Madame Bovary, War and Peace, and Heart of Darkness. After the complete rethinking of this text – compressing, condensing, cutting, changing the narrative line somewhat – now I like it.” “There comes a point where I’m not embarrassed to show it and actually I’m kind of eager to show it. “If I’m embarrassed to show it to you, then it’s not ready. “The infallible test of anything I write is embarrassment,” Rushdie says. The 60,000 word text, which has now been slashed to 35,000 words, is about a film director and an actor slash muse written in the style of New Wave cinema, with “disjunctions and crash cuts and gangsters”. His novella, titled The Seventh Wave, is also linked to film. “It was very interesting to see what, in my view, held up and what did not.” Often locked inside during the pandemic, Rushdie set himself a program to rewatch the films that made him fall in love with movies when he was young – “the French New Wave, the Italian New Wave, all the other great films of that period of the 60s and 70s”.
Then the critic in question ended up not taking the paternity leave so I got fired before I started.” I thought that was a wonderful idea and I said, ‘yes, please’. There was one moment 100 years ago, when somebody at the New Yorker was taking paternity leave and I was asked if I’d like to step in for a couple of months to be their film critic. Aside from the novella, it will feature short stories, literary gossip (“as long as its not defamatory”) and writing about books – and film. “I’m going to kind of make it up as I go along, but I have some starting points,” he says.
#I am alive i guess free#
Writers often provide a mix of paid and free content, which is what Rushdie plans to do. Substack provides a platform for readers to subscribe to individual writers, whose posts are sent to your inbox or can be read online. “I’ve been looking at Substack and it’s so witty and enjoyable, and he’s clearly having a wonderful time doing it, I thought, ‘maybe I could do that’.”
Patti Smith is publishing on it and so is the Israeli writer Etgar Keret. He wasn’t sure, but the platform, which is best known for attracting big name journalists, has recently been courting fiction writers. “This project” is Substack and came about after the newsletter platform wrote to Rushdie’s literary agent, Andrew Wylie, who asked him if it was something he wanted to do.
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