Novel Ideas

Maybe I should take a little time off-not just from my formal fiddling with the epistemological puzzles of narration but from fiction in general-time off from imaginary people and imaginary experiences. Maybe I should try something conventional reportorial nonfictional-get in touch even if just obliquely with the real world again. Purportedly culled from a cache of donated papers K. B. Dixons new novel Novel Ideas is an unorthodox character study a look at one writers life from the inside. A mosaic collection of excerpted letters and emails written by the author Stephen Styles to his close friend the novelist Alan Dodd the book follows Styles as he struggles to write a true crime story-a story that must in the end compete with friends family and other ideas (novel ideas) for his attention.