Good interview in the Guardian, with a couple of new nuggets.

The way Kaufman describes the process, the novel sort of grew and mutated as it went. The germ of it, he says, was that “I wanted to deal with time travel in many different forms – all of them mutually exclusive.”

[...] “I’m sort of stuck in a sublet apartment in New York. I don’t know where I’m going to end up, but it’s not my place, not my things. Not my books, you know, not my bed. I spend almost all my time in this place because, you know, there’s nowhere to go and I’m very anxious about getting ill.” And he’s writing – what else? – a script about a virus. (Source)

(Emphasis added by me.) Don't ask me what it is, I have no idea. Could be related to the project for Ryan Gosling's production company?