More jobs Americans won’t do: write their own novels. Mind you, I wrote this post, so I’m in no position to carp or quibble. Still, this is ingenious:
Admit it. Certain things make you desperately unhappy, and you don’t know why–the Sbarro at the mall, the taste of Jolly Ranchers in winter, the woman in the Buick station wagon you saw at the Kwik Trip, the Food Network after ten p.m.
In 100 words or less, please answer the question, “What makes you so unhappy?” in the comments field below. Selected answers will appear in Dean Bakopoulos’s new novel, My American Unhappiness, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in late 2009 or early 2010.
In 100 words or less, please answer the question, “What makes you so unhappy?” in the comments field below. Selected answers will appear in Dean Bakopoulos’s new novel, My American Unhappiness, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in late 2009 or early 2010.
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