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Oates has never written a novel on a computer, nor would she. "If James Joyce had written Ulysses on a word processor, he might still be writing it. Because you can always keep revising and maybe Joyce would never have finished." https://t.co/WVxrhiVb3s

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No less impressive than Pissarro today was this painting in the main part of the museum: Holbein’s Dead Christ in the Tomb. Dostoevsky was so shaken by it that the picture became a key image in his novel The Idiot: “Why, a man’s faith might be ruined by looking at that picture!” https://t.co/irBWuOjERY

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To be James Bond, Ian Fleming mused, beware of men with moustaches and girls in ankle bracelets. Sounds like he and Ellen in my debut, The Dark Frontier, would get on well, but I fear she might not be glamorous enough for Bond https://t.co/wqEdSNjjwH

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@AudreySolene For me, as a young lad keen on adventure, it was the work of an author rarely mentioned today: Rider Haggard (Allan Quatermain, King Solomon’s Mines, She – I loved them all. Also Conan Doyle, but The Lost World rather than Sherlock Holmes.

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Amazingly, The Incredible Events in Women’s Cell Number 3 by Navalny’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh, is still available in Russia, where "prison unites people more than any other institution. You can find yourself in prison for almost anything" https://t.co/47iAW0Jt9f

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OTD in 1904 Chile’s great poet Pablo Neruda was born, beautifully celebrated around 50 years later by Christopher Logue with this set of poems based on Neruda’s ‘Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair’ https://t.co/hEV9kyySH7

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Virginia Woolf on Joyce's Ulysses: "the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, & ultimately nauseating" & "the scratching of pimples on the body of the bootboy at Claridges" So there’s hope for us yet

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It is THE sensation this autumn: the correspondence between Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch. After the words “It was murder” in her novel Malina and her early death in 1973, it is clear to many: Frisch was to blame. The letters show a different picture https://t.co/98JGwkay09

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A fascinating exhibition on Jan Tschichold, a pioneer of the “New Typography” inspired by the Bauhaus. Post-war he also went on to work for Penguin, redesigning their paperbacks, and later designed the Sabon typeface which I used in my past corporate life https://t.co/PRCwIkZBYv https://t.co/OQQd3KAe9m

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Oates has never written a novel on a computer, nor would she. "If James Joyce had written Ulysses on a word processor, he might still be writing it. Because you can always keep revising and maybe Joyce would never have finished." https://t.co/WVxrhiVb3s

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