Neighbor and author Stefan Merrill Block has a new novel, The Storm at the Door, out this month. The L Magazine has a Q&A with him today, and besides showing love for the shepherd's pie at The Pie Shop and "everything bagel at Terrace Bagels," he also explains that you shouldn't worry about worrying:
I’m better able to support myself now than when I began to write, but I still feel worried about future poverty with the same anxiety with which I once worried about present poverty. And that’s a good thing, I think. Worry is compelling and meticulous. The more I write, the more I feel like worry might be a writer’s most useful tool.
You can catch Block at a reading on Monday, June 13 at the Franklin Park Reading Series, along with Karen Russell, Teju Cole, and Diana Spechler.
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