Literature and art

My novel has the feel of a gigantic collage, its many vignettes assembled together for its overall effect. There's a visual aspect of it, to me, maybe not to others, that is defined by its structure. In mathematics, which was my initial intellectual training, the supreme compliment is "elegance," which is about being efficient and precise, less is more. So that my publication in number theory was not original but a more elegant solution to a very old problem. The same aesthetics followed me into creative writing.