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F Scott Fitzgerald's well-liked novel The Great Gatsby opens one hundred years ago today. (At the time, Fitzgerald himself thought the book was likely to be set in 1885.) A while back, I wrote this mildly divisive (ht @WhitStillman) piece for @NewStatesman https://t.co/VjSEiEwdgc

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Joan Didion, reporter, essayist, novelist, one of the most distinguished writers in the world, author of Play it as it Lawys and The Year of Magical Thinking, has died aged 87. I wrote this for the @newstatesman earlier in the year about her life and work https://t.co/ScuReiGS6G

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Here’s @TheBookerPrizes 2022 shortlist: Glory, NoViolet Bulawayo The Trees, Percival Everett Treacle Walker, Alan Garner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan Oh William!, Elizabeth Strout

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Here’s @TheBookerPrizes 2022 shortlist: Glory, NoViolet Bulawayo The Trees, Percival Everett Treacle Walker, Alan Garner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan Oh William!, Elizabeth Strout

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Gustave Flaubert, novelist and short story writer, turns 200 tomorrow. He changed the writing of prose, though what he represented is up for debate. I wrote this a bit ago for @NewStatesman about the author of Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education https://t.co/TtTANTuulf

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Here is my @Telegraph review of the intriguing and vivid new Cormac McCarthy novel The Passenger, the first of a pair, about clever, depressed siblings, New Orleans and the Bomb. . . https://t.co/df90DEmVVv

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Is anyone really near a copy of Elia Kazan's A Life right now?

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Roy Foster presumably the Yeats and Irish nationalism scholar doesn't think much of Sally Rooney's latest novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You... https://spectatorworld.com/book-and-art/sally-rooney-beautifil-world-hard-slog/

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bump again (ftwmi) for my @newyorker piece on the work of the Scotland-born English ex-academic and novelist Sarah Moss, author of "Cold Earth," a trio of loosely connected historical novels, "The Tidal Zone," "Ghost Wall," and most recently "Summerwater": https://t.co/1TrKN3GpBf

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Gustave Flaubert, novelist and short story writer, turns 200 tomorrow. He changed the writing of prose, though what he represented is up for debate. I wrote this a bit ago for @NewStatesman about the author of Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education https://t.co/TtTANTuulf