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John Banville is a calculating craftsman. The Irish novelist??s 1998 “The Book of Evidence” was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and his 2005 novel “The Sea” won it. Critics have compared his dreamy, playful writing to that of Vladimir Nabokov and Virginia Woolf; Don DeLillo praised his work as “dangerous and clear-running...
...have to translate the words on the page into a world of your own. And, as certain people like to write, language is always social, a structure that man is forever bound up within. To read you have to enter a world of intersubjectivity, where your understanding and the novelist??s mix and meld. Even when you make your way through a literary land as fantastically removed as Middle Earth or Tlön, you’re still walking in the middle of social discourse. So, Ms. Miller, I don’t know...
...million gift is not the novelist??s first contribution to the University. She previously donated art related to her controversial belief that a well-known Impressionist painter, Walter Sickert, was the 19th-century killer Jack the Ripper...
...writing a novel. What’s going on with that?BJ: It’s due next February, and I’m three-quarters done with it. I’m excited, but I’m also a frightfully slow writer. I write at a novelist??s pace, which means I write for a few hours each day, but I don’t go on these binges.14.FM: What is the novel about?BJ: It’s kind of an ensemble; there’s an elderly man who is suffering from dementia...
Instead of setting off for French dungeons after high school, she went to New Haven. By the time she graduated from Yale, Willig knew she wanted to be a novelist??but her love of the written word wasn’t enough to sell her on a starving artist’s life...
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