A writer without an audience is an unhappy writer. But a writer who writes just for that audience will not always be any more satisfied. The great satirist Kingsley Amis (Lucky Jim) explained why to The Paris Review: I read somewhere recently somebody saying, “When I want to read a book, I write one.” I …
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Published on January 30, 2022 05:00