City on Fire

Editor: Debut novel is 900 pages and you want $2 million dollars for it? I don't know, seems like a hell of a risk.

Hallberg: Risk is my middle name.

>>8080925
Was the big price just because they'd already sold the hollywood rights?

>>8080925
>>8080934
I completely forgot about the hype over its release and the sizable advance. I remember reading Pessl's Special Topics 5 years after it was released and reading people's reservations over the similar situation.

>>8080908
Just read the first pages on amazon because I like that title. Book reads very entertaining. Will give it a go.

Is he the new david foster wallace?

Is this the next generation of shitposters' infinite jest

>>8081123
Not a chance. The book hasn't gotten nearly enough hype, even with the extremely large advance, to compare to IJ. IJ was a chart-topper that also got academic attention and became an IRL meme that /lit/ has simply continued. Infinite Summer has been a thing for quite some time now.

I haven't heard a peep about CoF since it launched.

>>8080908
I read it. The prose is not that good, there isn't much philosophy behind it and the characters aren't original. Read it because I like the theme and the punk setting in 70s New York.

>>8082012
Is it entertaining? that's the only reason I read.

>>8082456
Yes. It is entertaining

>>8080925
Sold!