September 2010
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“The marketing people will say—so who is she. Who is the author of this book,...”
– Eileen Myles is probably not going to see the Secretariat movie. I wrote about her new book for the Poetry Foundation.
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“Novelists have two ways of talking about themselves. One in which they do a very...”
– Martin Amis, interviewed for the Paris Review by Francesca Riviere in 1998 (via RC)
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“This book does not seem to be growing very large although I have got to Chapter...”
– Barbara Comyns, Our Spoons Came From Woolworths
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“I think that’s a neurosis common to men and women both, but maybe at a...”
– Norman Rush describes an obstacle to the unnamed narrator of Mating’s happiness in love. The blog posts I wrote while I was reading Mating are here and here. The rest of this enormously satisfying interview with Rush and his wife Elsa is in the Paris Review.
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