Summary
Novelists and poets (especially the former - the latter expect little to no public interest in their work) are expected to be skilled in the arts of rhetorically slicing and dicing their magnum opus, spieling off a quick chronology of its conception and production, and offering a few light-hearted gags about its contents.
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The Talking Cure
The talking cure The Paris Review Interviews: volume one with an introduction by Philip Gourevitch Canongate, 510pp, £14.99
There was a time when writers mainly wrote books. Now they spend half their time talking about their books to bloggers, peop...See the full content of this document
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