Preface to the First Edition Chapter 1: Starman Chapter 2: Cousin Julia Chapter 3: The Amadeus Effect Chapter 4: Fake Fiction Chapter 5: New Balls, Please! Chapter 6: Time Flies When You're Having Fun KEY RACE ALERT Chapter 7: Psychology 101 Chapter 8: Brief Reply to a Hideous Critic (to be continued….) - T. Q.
Lockdown in Amsterdam (Chapter 8)
Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel Chapter 8 Brief Reply To a Hideous Critic David Foster WallaceFull o' Bull Linda, my personal assistant, just struck gold. She discovered a review of Full o’ Bull’s first novel, The Wild Numbers, in an old issue of Science. That’s a damned prestigious scientific journal, right up there with Nature …
Lockdown in Amsterdam (Chapter 7)
Mammatus Clouds, otherwise known as Sky Breasts Lockdown in Amsterdam - Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel Chapter 7 Psychology 101 “You know what your problem is, Toby?” I’ve been asked on various occasions by various girlfriends. “No,” I will say, “but something tells me I’m about to find out.” I’ve always regarded introspection as an …
Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our regular writing to bring you the following important announcement: Poor Full o’ Bull. For days now, he has been glued to the television set watching CNN’s coverage of the US presidential elections. Not me. In fact, if it had been up to me, I would have steered clear of …
Lockdown in Amsterdam (Chapter 6)
The Steve Miller Band Featuring King MacBee: Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel Chapter 6 Time Flies When You're Having Fun Today was a special day for a whole bunch of reasons. Linda called me this afternoon to tell me that Lockdown in Amsterdam now boasts 40,000 subscribers. Forty-thousand! Let’s see now... at a buck-fifty per …
Lockdown in Amsterdam (Chapter 5)
Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel CHAPTER 5 New Balls, Please! I’ve never been a big sports fan. Whether it’s the rules of the game or the lines painted on the grass or the gym floor, from the umpire yelling “strike!” to the referee blowing his whistle to the linesman waving his flag, nowadays assisted by …
Lockdown in Amsterdam (Chapter 4)
Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel Chapter 4 Fake Fiction I just had a really enjoyable discussion with Full o’ Bull on the art of novel writing. Here is how it ended: He’s upstairs now, engaged in a heated debate with his wife and daughter on whether or not to kick me out of the house. …
Lockdown in Amsterdam (Chapter 3)
LOCKDOWN IN AMSTERDAM - Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel Chapter 3 The Amadeus Effect Breaking news from Amsterdam: Full o’Bull has just tested positive. Not to Covid-19, mind you, but to that mysterious, debilitating disease that afflicts a great many members of the literary community worldwide: writer’s block. “Don’t tell him I told you,” his …
Lockdown in Amsterdam (Chapter 2)
LOCKDOWN IN AMSTERDAM - Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel Chapter 2 COUSIN JULIA I was awoken early the next morning by a ringing telephone. At first I thought it was the hotel management to complain about the racket the girls and I had been making in the wee hours of the night, but it was …
Lockdown in Amsterdam (Chapter 1)
LOCKDOWN IN AMSTERDAM - Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel Chapter 1 STARMAN Lockdown is doing funny things to our sense of time. How long have I been cooped up with Full o’ Bull and his family? And when did I arrive in Holland? Was it four weeks ago? Five? And do you remember the general …
