You’ve one more evening tonight, and one more afternoon tomorrow, to catch The Novel: Live! at Richard Hugo House. Don’t worry about tuning in late; you can read all the previously written texts at the hereby linked website.

The event involves 36 writers (one of whom has a cartoonist collaborator) creating a single piece of fictive goodness. The final edited work will be put out as an ebook next year.

If this sounds absurd, well it is. But it’s not unprecedented. In the 1980s I was involved with “The Novel Of Seattle By Seattle,” an entire book-length yarn created in four days at Bumbershoot, complete with an accompanying art installation.