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Imagine a boy and his dog. Imagine a woman. Imagine a swarm of bees. Imagine a Hamlet who isn’t convinced readiness is all and who has no fellow players to interrupt his soliloquies, and you have a little of the flavor of Thom Pain (based on nothing). Intimate, funny, frightening, full of the commonplace but [...]
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Zadie Smith on “literature’s legacy of honorable failure,” and how writers can fail better: When writers admit to failures they like to admit to the smallest ones – for example, in each of my novels somebody “rummages in their purse” for something because I was too lazy and thoughtless and unawake to separate “purse” from [...]
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