Arthur Minor runs to his doom, by Andrew Sean Greer: Mister Catastrophe. After The Tribulations of Arthur Miner (Pulitzer 2018), his antihero returns in Arthur Minor.
Like Bech, Minor is a single writer in his fifties, more or less unsuccessful. He chases cachet at literary festivals, interviews better-known colleagues. Bech was Jewish and questioned his Jewishness, while Minor is homosexual and questions his sexuality. The pattern is the same, but this time Minor crosses… This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 66% left to discover.