Activity Report: The Novel You Write In Secret About A Secret

On the novels you write and hide and yet don't give up on, and my upcoming class on E. M. Forster's Maurice.

During my sabbatical year in 2021-2022, which seems so far away now, I was unable to do much of the travel I hoped to do and instead stayed home and read essays for Best American Essays 2022, and went through my old files. I found two partial novels I hadn’t recalled starting. One was in an email I’d sent to myself back in 2008, a chaotic practice I was…