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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Anxiety
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a dog named Oliver with severe separation anxiety. He couldn't be alone... so I had to bring him wherever I went.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Porter Square Books was the only place I could find that was dog-friendly, work-friendly, and had food. I was there all the time.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don't want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fortunate that Yale has a very open and creative law school. I took many courses outside the law school, and every semester, the students had a literature reading group. I was asked to lead one on 'Dante and the Concept of Justice,' and it was around that time that I began writing the novel.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Dante Club' was one of America's most important book clubs, as their Wednesday night meetings ultimately led to our country's first exposure to Dante's poetry on a wide scale.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a remarkable power about reading together, reading collectively, that's brought out by reading groups.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I incorporated in my novel 'The Poe Shadow' was the little-known fact that documents show Poe inherited a slave and decided to free him.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because there was such a mob of people expecting him, and they actually chased down his carriage at the hotel, the Parker House Hotel.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Dickens arrives in the United States in November of 1867, he's already in questionable health. So by the end of the trip, he was really in failing condition, and really, he would never recover completely after this point, and you could sort of draw a straight line to his ultimate decline and death.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we think about what mystery entails as a genre, certainly a big part of it is a resolution.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surprisingly, it was not an American but a British company that opened an amusement park in 2007 called Dickens World, located in the English county of Kent, complete with an Ebenezer Scrooge Haunted House, a Great Expectations Boat Ride and the as-advertised 'costumed Dickensian characters.'
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dickens's final book, 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood,' forms the jumping-off point for my new novel, 'The Last Dickens'. This last work by Dickens has very little social commentary and a pretty tightly efficient storyline and cast of characters. Not necessarily what we think of when we think what characterizes Dickens.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Films have become shorter in length, jumpier in style, and simpler in story so that they can be more easily transferred to once under-exploited international markets.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, film has been a shadow thrown over the minds of all novelists. Ever since, novelists have strained to make themselves more relevant and, whether consciously or not, novel-writing has been influenced by cinematic doctrines - by turns, embracing and defying it.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
As new technology emerges as the greatest challenge to novels since the advent of film, it may be that the fragmentation of storytelling into installments key to Dickens's era will be recreated in some way.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The novel has always been a contradictory form. Here is a long form narrative mainly read originally by consumers who were only newly literate or limited in their literacy. The novel ranked below poetry, essay and history in prestige for a long time.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020