Jun 20, 2016
My Early Fame
We wanted to become artists. Instead, we worked for them.
David Schuman teaches writing and directs the MFA Program at Washington University in St. Louis. His fiction, nonfiction and reviews have appeared in Joyland, Conjunctions, Missouri Review, The Fanzine, The Rumpus, the Pushcart Prize anthology and other magazines and anthologies. He is on Twitter @d_schuman.
His royalty check was enough to pay off the mortgage of the house I grew up in. I didn’t intend, exactly, to steal it.
