Pre-Nasalism

But since the completion of Terrorism, I'd produced nothing but the blog. It's true that Norman Harkness, blog reviewer for New York Magazine called it "an account of writer's block which, for candor and anguish, surpasses any we have on record," but it made no dint in my depression.  Like any writer, I'd known my share of gridlock over the years, but my current state was different, all-encompassing. It wasn't just my own work I'd rejected, but language in general. As I wrote in the blog of June 11, 2010, "More than mute when I sit at my desk, I am disgusted with any thought of writing or reading or the least hint of internal description."

Lawrence Shainberg