- Nov 07, 2020
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- Chatter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading isn't about managing expectations. In certain ways, writing is. You're trying to send signals early in a book about what might be coming later, but I think worrying about the kind of chatter around a book is something I try and stay as far away from when I'm reading.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
- Nov 07, 2020
In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was working my first adult job, a quasi journalistic job, writing content for a website. In the offices, we had banks of TVs, papers, a constant media stream, which was unusual for 2001.
- Driving
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- Nov 07, 2020
The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer 'How should novels be?' but 'Why write novels at all?'
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to feel that, in addition to Imre Kertesz, Hungary has produced at least three contemporary novelists who deserve the Nobel: Peter Nadas, Peter Esterhazy and Laszlo Krasznahorkai.
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- Nov 07, 2020