The prophet of Tenth Street

the long version

http://www.headbutler.com/shorttakes/brief-prophet-tenth-street In Brief: "The Prophet of Tenth Street" By JESSE KORNBLUTH Published: Mar 27, 2012 Tsipi Keller and I were on a literary committee. After the meetings, we talked baseball, sealing our non-literary friendship. So I was stunned that this Israeli-born writer whose bio is dotted with grants and prizes would write a novel as sexy --- really: as dirty --- as Jackpot. Her new novel couldn’t be more different. “The Prophet of Tenth Street” is Marcus Weiss, a New Yorker who sells his business and becomes, of all things, a novelist. It is beyond difficult to write fiction about a fiction-maker; not only do you have to get into the guy’s head, you’ve got to create a plot in which something actually happens. Keller does both, and in a way that’s unnerving --- how does she know so much about what it means to be a man, trapped in his head, convinced he will find and reveal the essential truths of life?