April 2012
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“A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has...”
– Junot Diaz, whose Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao I’m giving away today as part of World Book Night
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“Let me underscore the obvious here: Reading fiction is important. It is a vital...”
– Ann Patchett, on the no-prize fiction Pulitzer in “And the Winner Isn’t”
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On Literary Gateway Drugs
The Awl asked: What books make you cringe to remember?
John Freeman (Granta editor and a man with some pretty impressive bookshelves) answered:
None of them, really. Jack Kerouac, Kurt Vonnegut, they’re all starter drugs for reading. Without these sentimental and less sophisticated early passions, I probably would have wound up having a very different life, one missing the strange and...
