Percival Everett's Therapist Is Better Than Yours

I tell people I am a novelist sometimes when I am feeling brave and I have written a grand total of 1.5 novels in 44 years. Percival Everett has written 24 novels and ten short story collections and also a children’s picture book and he is only 24 years older than me. If I want to be as much of a novelist as Percival Everett, I have to start writing a novel every year and also burn off a short-story collection every other year. You do your own version of that math.