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The writer’s voice

By TF | Published: July 27, 2010
I have of late come across a number of recordings of authors reading their work and thought it prudent to gather the ones that interest me in one spot – for myself as much as anybody else. Discussions of how an author sounds are inevitable. But I would encourage listeners to take the time [...]
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DeLillo on the typewriter

By TF | Published: June 9, 2010
To this day, [DeLillo] writes his books on the same Olympia manual typewriter he has used since 1975. “It’s very scarred,” he says. “It looks like the typewriter equivalent of an old baseball coach who’s been around for 38 years, and he’s bandy-legged and spits lots of tobacco juice.” In a Feb. 5, [...]
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Public Library 5.3

By TF | Published: March 5, 2010
Carved up, or kindly cut? James Ley on Raymond Carver and the writer-editor relationship. Via The Australian. Publishing: The revolutionary future. Jason Epstein on the revolution that is here. Via New York Review of Books Thinkwriting about Don DeLillo. On DeLillo, writer and lover of language. By Darragh McManus and via The Guardian The Acre. Great nonfiction by [...]
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Public Library 27.11

By TF | Published: November 27, 2009
Zadie Smith on the rise of the essay. “In the first place, “well-made novel” seems to me to be a kind of Platonic bogeyman, existing everywhere in an ideal realm but in few spots on this earth.” Excellent essay on the similarities and differences between the essay and the novel. From The Guardian. Midnight in Dostoevsky. [...]
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