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W. W. Norton: [Ray Hill] came out to his family when he was eighteen. His mother...
[Ray Hill] came out to his family when he was eighteen. His mother took a long drag from her cigarette and a sip of her coffee and said, “Well, that’s a relief.” “What?” he asked. Late 1950s Houston was not a tolerant time and place for homosexuals, especially in the blue-collar, religiously…
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The New Stuttgart City Library - Germany
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Bouffées d’affadissement
“Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn’t occur to people—or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original. Instead, a…
Film Trailers 101
Take note, Hollywood; this is how you do trailers. I don’t need to see the plot compacted in two minutes, I want to be teased, drawn in. (And it looks like a great stop-motion film, as…
Anne Enright, who just published The Forgotten Waltz (W. W. Norton), on why writing is a solution for her, and not a problem.
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How to Write an Important Novel
“But can you?”
“Can I what?”
“Write an important novel.”
“Of course I can. All you have to do is cut out the plot and shove in plenty of misery.”
-P.G. Wodehouse, Ice in the Bedroom
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