Dickens and Dumas both did it, as did many of their contemporaries. Why serialize a novel? There is nothing new about the practice. But, for now at least, because this is all an experiment, that stuff will come back here and I will use the newsletter to serialize The Wistful and the Good and its sequels. You may have noticed that there has been nothing other than my occasional travel posts on the blog for a while, as I was putting most of my thoughts on the state of our literary culture into newsletter posts. Starting a newsletter was actually the publisher’s idea and I struggled for a while to figure out what to do with it and to figure out what to do with this blog. It comes about because my deal with my intended publisher fell through, something I documented in a newsletter here. (But feel free just to read the novel!) There is an index of both the novel and the background posts here. Besides the novel, I am also serializing a series of backgrounder posts discussing the historical background and literary issued behind the novel. You will be able to read the first chapter at and you can subscribe to receive a new chapter by email each week. My novel, The Wistful and the Good, begins serializing on Substack tomorrow, November 27.
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