Shannon is a pro bono philosopher who wishes she had majored in something practical, like accounting or ancient European medical anthropology. She works a wearisome day job while waiting for the lucky publisher who will accept her Great American Novel of the Century, a situation that will most likely occur when she begins to actually, you know, write the Great American Novel of the Century. As a nearly pathological bookworm, a situation that once rendered her friendless but now offers a satisfying degree of pretension, she enjoys reading to the point that her husband often feels neglected in her presence. She invites you to read that which she has created in the cobwebbed recesses of her mind and to discuss it with a scathing honesty...bad attention is still attention. And so on.