Crust

Walker Linchuk is an aged writer and author of the Complete Series (The Complete Book of Aids, 9/11, Terrorism) whose name has often been discussed as a strong possibility for the Nobel Prize, suffering from a seven month plague of writer's block that New York Magazine says, "for candor and anguish, surpasses any we have on record." One morning Linchuk wakes to find a crust in his nose—the "definitive crust of his life"—that awakens him to a new world of desire and enlightenment