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― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“Characters in novels sometimes radiate more energy, therefore, when we don’t enter their mind. It is one of the techniques a novelist acquires instinctively—don’t go into your protagonist’s thoughts until you have something to say about his or her inner life that is more interesting than the reader’s suppositions.”
― The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
― The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
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The Year of Reading Proust
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2013 was the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time for many of us. However, these th ...more
James’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at James’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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