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Gordon MacMillan retweeted
When Truman Capote died, Gore Vidal reportedly called it a good career move.
A dreadful thing to say. An unforgettable sentence.
Writers have always been rather good at being unpleasant to one another.
But have we lost the art of the literary insult?
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When Truman Capote died, Gore Vidal reportedly called it a good career move.
A dreadful thing to say. An unforgettable sentence.
Writers have always been rather good at being unpleasant to one another.
But have we lost the art of the literary insult?
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Gordon MacMillan retweeted
Stephen King & J. K. Rowling became celebrities because of their books.
Richard Osman and Graham Norton were celebrities before they wrote theirs.
Two journeys to the same bestseller lists.
But does knowing the author change how we read?tangledprosewritingthroughit…
Stephen King & J. K. Rowling became celebrities because of their books.
Richard Osman and Graham Norton were celebrities before they wrote theirs.
Two journeys to the same bestseller lists.
But does knowing the author change how we read?tangledprosewritingthroughit…
Gordon MacMillan retweeted
Martin Amis waged war against cliché. George Orwell was fighting much the same battle decades earlier.
Very different styles. The same suspicion of language that does the thinking for us.
On Orwell, clarity and the art of paying attention.
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Martin Amis waged war against cliché. George Orwell was fighting much the same battle decades earlier.
Very different styles. The same suspicion of language that does the thinking for us.
On Orwell, clarity and the art of paying attention.
tangledprosewritingthroughit…
Gordon MacMillan retweeted
Rereading Martin Amis’s The Rachel Papers made me think about something bigger.
We have more opinions about books than ever. More ratings. More recommendations. But do we still have literary critics? Whatever happened to the literary critic
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Rereading Martin Amis’s The Rachel Papers made me think about something bigger.
We have more opinions about books than ever. More ratings. More recommendations. But do we still have literary critics? Whatever happened to the literary critic
tangledprosewritingthroughit…
Gordon MacMillan retweeted
Joan Didion warned us that “writers are always selling somebody out”, and the Year of Magical Thinking turns the question around.
What if the person being sold out is the writer herself?
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Joan Didion warned us that “writers are always selling somebody out”, and the Year of Magical Thinking turns the question around.
What if the person being sold out is the writer herself?
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Gordon MacMillan retweeted
What happens when a writer spends years trying to understand someone and still can’t?
Emmanuel Carrère’s *The Adversary* suggests that sometimes the most honest answer a writer can give us is: I don’t know.
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What happens when a writer spends years trying to understand someone and still can’t?
Emmanuel Carrère’s *The Adversary* suggests that sometimes the most honest answer a writer can give us is: I don’t know.
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Gordon MacMillan retweeted
Imagine trusting a writer with your story.
Then the book comes out and you realise they never believed you.
Janet Malcolm’s *The Journalist and the Murderer* asks whether betrayal is built into nonfiction.
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ALT The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm and Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss, exploring trust and betrayal in nonfiction
Imagine trusting a writer with your story.
Then the book comes out and you realise they never believed you.
Janet Malcolm’s *The Journalist and the Murderer* asks whether betrayal is built into nonfiction.
tangledprosewritingthroughit…
ALT The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm and Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss, exploring trust and betrayal in nonfiction
Gordon MacMillan retweeted
Hunter S. Thompson wasn't a reliable narrator. That might have been the point.
Can journalism distort the facts and still tell us something true?
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and the strange truth of Gonzo journalism.
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Hunter S. Thompson wasn't a reliable narrator. That might have been the point.
Can journalism distort the facts and still tell us something true?
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and the strange truth of Gonzo journalism.
tangledprosewritingthroughit…
Gordon MacMillan retweeted
Donna Tartt hasn't published a novel in 13 years.
The Secret History: 1992
The Little Friend: 2002
The Goldfinch: 2013
Book four: ???
This is officially the longest we've ever waited for a new Donna Tartt novel.
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Donna Tartt hasn't published a novel in 13 years.
The Secret History: 1992
The Little Friend: 2002
The Goldfinch: 2013
Book four: ???
This is officially the longest we've ever waited for a new Donna Tartt novel.
tangledprosewritingthroughit…
Gordon MacMillan retweeted
Joan Didion and Norman Mailer shouldn't have had much in common. Yet both helped reinvent journalism by questioning its most comforting idea: objectivity. tangledprosewritingthroughit…
Joan Didion and Norman Mailer shouldn't have had much in common. Yet both helped reinvent journalism by questioning its most comforting idea: objectivity. tangledprosewritingthroughit…