RIVKA GALCHEN + CHRIS DANKLAND = GREATEST LITERARY SUPER-COUPLE IN THE UNIVERSE

STEPS TO ACHIEVE THIS:

1. Write a series of beautiful and intelligent books that will establish me as a preeminent world author

2. Woo Rivka Galchen with a heady mixture of sweetness, high intellectual engagement, and panther-like sexuality

3. Get married

4. Go to New York and murder Jonathan Safron Foer and Allison Krauss

5. Go to San Francisco and murder Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida (sorry, but the literary world is very competitive)

6. Kidnap but do not murder Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky and force them Kathy Bates style to translate Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov in our basement--then murder them

7. Having become the greatest literary super-couple on the planet Earth, we must then travel to Zondor to fight the galactic literary super-couple, Bloqzar Dzbvst and QRRRRRRRR, in a fiction writing match to the death

8. Having defeated them, return to Earth and claim our rightful throne. Wait by the phone for Thomas Pynchon to call and have us over for dinner

9. Swag



link to Atmospheric Disturbances
http://www.amazon.com/Atmospheric-Disturbances-Novel-Rivka-Galchen/dp/B003JTHTQC/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1305208654&sr=1-1#_

James Wood review of the book
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/06/23/080623crbo_books_wood?currentPage=all