Waiting For Godot

Are you one of those people who are always waiting? It could be for answers. If you're a creative, you have spent your whole life being the unwanted suitor and writing emails like "I was wondering about the status of my submission (or the more pathetic query about "wondering if they had received" when you know they did). You imagine people like the late Martin Amis who had entree into everyone's office and pants (if they were a female Penguin editor). When it cones to love you may only have spent part of your adult life waiting. Most lovers get over the Young Werther stage. It's easy for an artistic personality, who prefers the imagined life over reality, to err as far as work is concerned and end up chasing windmills like Don Quixote.

read the Kirkus review of The Kafka Studies Department by Francis Levy

and listen to "Mickey's Monkey" by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles