Auslander: It Doesn't Matter!

Shalom Auslander finds himself in that most terrifying of author locales: Between Books.

It's as if a literary Goldilocks has found her way into my head: this idea's too short, this one's too long, this one's too serious, this one's too funny. Or too shallow, or too self-important, or too Jewish, or too obvious, or too boring, or too desperate, or too clever, or too ordinary, or too traditional, or too experimental. Too everything and not enough everything else. I picture the bears coming home and tearing her little head off.

Too Palahniuk, says Goldilocks.