Dismal Pastiche

• 2011-10-20

  I dreamed that all of those literary couples—you know, Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida; Nicole Krauss and Jonathan Safran Foer; Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman; plus nine others, perhaps imaginary—together shared custody of a dog. It was a golden retriever, and it spent only one month per year with each of the writing couples. In the dream, this seemed unbearably sad to me.