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Lispector, The Apprenticeship
I’ve been reading Clarice Lispector’s 1969 novel The Apprenticeship or The Book Of Pleasures, translated by Stefan Tobler, and published by Penguin Classics here and New Directions in the USA.
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Bulgakov
Everyone I’ve ever met has told me that they love The Master and Margarita.
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Phelan, Ridgway
Who remembers Tom Phelan’s In The Season Of The Daisies?
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Walsh
A new course of Writing Fiction is underway at the Faber Academy, and I have a room full of interesting and enthusiastic writers to share my Thursday evenings with.
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Haushofer, Glavinic
The Wall is a 1963 novel by Austrian Marlen Haushofer.
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Underlining Lispector
Clarice Lispector is a very quotable writer.
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Serge
I was going to write about Victor Serge because I love his fiction, and because I have just read Midnight In The Century, his novel of internal exile…
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Spark's zeugma
From A Far Cry From Kensington.
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McCarthy, Everett
Percival Everett is interested in names.
Jan 9
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A couple of weird similes from Liam O'Flaherty
This is a passage from Insurrection, O’Flaherty’s 1950 novel about the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916.
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Javier Cercas
In each of the books which Javier Cercas has written about Spanish history there is always, almost always, a doubt about whether it should be written at…
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Some advice from Mrs. Hawkins
Mrs. Hawkins is the narrator of Muriel Spark’s novel A Far Cry From Kensington. She often offers advice.
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