{"product_id":"9781592999637","title":"Novel Ideas","description":"\"Maybe I should take a little time off-not just from my formal fiddling with the epistemological puzzles of narration, but from fiction in general-time off from imaginary people and imaginary experiences. Maybe I should try something 'conventional,' reportorial, nonfictional-get in touch, even if just obliquely, with the real world again.\"\u003cp\u003ePurportedly culled from a cache of donated papers, K. B. Dixon's new novel, Novel Ideas, is an unorthodox character study, a look at one writer's life from the inside. A mosaic collection of excerpted letters and emails written by the author Stephen Styles to his close friend, the novelist Alan Dodd, the book follows Styles as he struggles to write a true crime story-a story that must, in the end, compete with friends, family, and other ideas (novel ideas) for his attention.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"First Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036844212464,"sku":"9781592999637","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781592999637_p0.jpg?v=1763813160","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781592999637","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}