Second place

This is the difference, I believe, between the artist and the ordinary person: the artist can create outside of themselves a perfect copy of their intentions. The rest of us only create chaos, or something wooden and hopelessly fragile, no matter how skillful we are at imagining it. This does not mean that we all lack a certain space where we can instinctively realize ourselves, to jump without looking, but invoking things into permanent existence is a different level of achievement. The closest most people come to that realization is having a child. And nowhere are our mistakes and shortcomings more clear than there: the act of having a child! No one depicts the emotional dimensions between ordinary humans like Cask. "Second Place" is a philosophical novel about what happens when art is mixed with life. Vulture is a deep reflection into the secrets of human relationships. Oprah Magazine revived the literary genre known as autofiction, then set its own rules. Cask's provocative, confrontational, and bold writings have earned her many fans who cherish her work, to an extent rarely seen with any other writer. The Guardian