Could someone please explain what the deal is with “Watergate Sue,” currently being serialized in the New York Times Magazine? It has no plot. What point is it trying to make?
The Tin Man
Could someone please explain what the deal is with “Watergate Sue,” currently being serialized in the New York Times Magazine? It has no plot. What point is it trying to make?
If you’ve read any of Kelso’s other stories, you’ll know that they tend to be character-driven pieces that are not exactly action-packed but reward close and repeated reading. The narrative movement is there, but it’s all but imperceptible in the tiny increments in which it’s being printed. I think the NY Times Magazine’s format of running one page of a graphic novel per week does a disservice to the medium–it’s as if they were running one paragraph of Michael Chabon’s new novel each week.
Thanks, Tim! I agree with your last point – each week’s installment ends in a really odd place, as if it was cut off mid-story. It really doesn’t work.