Category: Books

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Too Misty

Here’s some outstanding creative writing advice from British novelist Muriel Spark. It’s the opening of her novel Finishing...
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Unsolved

Famous Last Words: “Mrs. Tope’s care has spread a very neat, clean breakfast ready for her lodger. Before...
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Fame

I discover I’m mentioned in Adam Gopnik’s latest memoir, At the Stranger’s Gate, when he describes going to...
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Ornithology

Not long ago I was grappling unsuccessfully with Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, but I did carry away one...