"The Future, Mr. Gitts!, the Future"

One more response to the hubbub around the popular stature of the Novel and those who write them

Jack Nicholson as Jake Gittes and John Huston as Noah Cross in Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974) | film still

The first short story I ever published outside a college fishbowl appeared during the earliest days of what was then Electric Literature’s blog, The Outlet. At the time, 2009, I was working for EL — or, well, not “working” in the sense of earning…