I'm currently working on the final draft of A Brilliant Novel In The Works.

My novel is about a novelist (named Yuvi Zalkow) who is failing to write a novel. When we meet Yuvi, he walks around in torn underwear, he stands on his desk, and he worries — about his wife cheating on him, about his sexually-deviant fantasies, about his brother-in-law's gastrointestinal problems, about the novel he can’t seem to write. Instead of writing a novel, he strings together his bizarre essays and stories, thinking he's outsmarted his agent. But the structure of Yuvi’s novel falls apart, as does his life. And one day, as he waits for his brother-in-law in the hospital, he meets a Palestinian man who becomes "too big for the novel." And so Yuvi begins the novel again. The reader gets to experience this transformation firsthand, as Yuvi rewrites the very book that the reader is reading.

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