The point of no return

No more middling middles

Re-writing the same book a couple dozen times is a bit like getting an X-ray of your whole skeleton. You have a good sense of what you look like covered in muscle and skin and clothes, but things look different when you get down to the bone. It can be a little unsettling (I say this as a person who’s had more X-rays in the past two years than most peopl…