![]() Less is Lost continues the adventures of Arthur Less – a gay novelist in his 50s who walks a fine line between feeling recognized and completely forgotten. “And I thought, well, if you win a Pulitzer Prize, doesn’t it mean you can write anything you want? So I thought, screw it, I’ll do what I want, even though my agent will be mad at me.” What he really wanted, he finally admitted, was to return to Less – his previous novel and his fifth overall – which is a lyrical, pessimistic, exhilarating work, about writing, growing old and being a gay man. It was a story about a road trip across the United States.Īfter reading it, he issued a judgment – one that carried a lot of weight, considering that he was, by then, an award-winning writer: “This is terrible.” ![]() At about 150-pages-long, it was what he had worked on after winning the Pulitzer. One afternoon in 2019, Sean Greer – who was born in Washington, D.C., in 1970 – sat down to look over a manuscript. Now, to be fair, Greer’s literary agent denies that she was opposed to continuing that bestselling novel (“but she said it!” the writer insists). Now, he’s released the sequel he was warned he shouldn’t write: Less is Lost. It’s not cool,’” recalls Andrew Sean Greer, whose novel Less won the award back in 2017. ![]() You cannot write a sequel to a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. ![]() “When I won the Pulitzer Prize, my agent said, ‘don’t write a sequel. ![]()
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