Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Month: July 2013

  • Art By Focus Group: my new idea for an art installation

    This is my idea for a new art installation: Set up a focus group.  I know there are places that do this, where they pay people some amount of money to sit around and tell you how they feel about a bank’s new stupid ad.  I used to do them in LA when I didn’t…

  • Eye of the chicken

    I am so goddamn bored. I get like this when I finish a book.  I thought it was depression, but it’s not. It’s boredom.  I am 30,000 words into the next book, but it’s just a collection of short vignettes, with no story or bones or structure behind it, so trying to read it right…