Juvenilia

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I began purchasing music when I was 16, shortly after I started earning money from my first job. I had always enjoyed listening to music, but before I turned 16, I had been content to let the music stay on the radio. The setting: the tail end of the 80s. CDs were on the store [...]

When I moved to my new apartment a few months ago, I brought with me five or six boxes full of CDs. As I carried each box up three flights of stairs, the thought occurred to me: why I do I still have all of this? I had long ago transferred that music (everything that [...]

And so I spent my teenage years writing. As I’ve mentioned before, the novel-length works were divided into sci-fi and what I called “realistic fiction.” I also wrote short stories — about 40 in all. These were mostly sci-fi stories in the tradition of The Twilight Zone. Some of the stories were worse than others, [...]

My first attempt at creative writing came when I was in the third grade. For some reason, my mom bought me a diary book (a 20th century blog), and so for a few weeks I wrote some entries. Eventually, I got tired of recording what was really happening in my life and decided to fictionalize [...]

One big difference between Juvenilia and the other two novels in the series is that we get to see lots of characters working summer jobs. In The Spring, most of the main characters have jobs, but interestingly the narrative never accompanies them to work. In Juvenilia, the narrative does. When I was a teenager, I [...]