The length of the manuscript is up to the authors, as is its genre. So much of publishing is about seeing your name in the world, but this is the opposite, putting the future ghost of you forward. You and I will have to die in order for us to get these texts. As for his future readers, he said: “Maybe I am being too grim, but my main concern is, will they be there? Due to the pandemic, Knausgård, the last author before Vuong, has been prevented from delivering his manuscript, because the Norwegian author lives in the UK.

Source: The Guardian August 19, 2020 08:48 UTC