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  • Pingback by * Esther Waters « A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online — April 24, 2010 @ 5: 08 pm

    On Heinrich Boll « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

  • Novelist's Delhi home besieged by Hindu women demanding that she quit India because of her views on Kashmir

    Arundhati Roy's home besieged by protesters Owen Bowcott 2010

  • "Markson does away with most narrative conventions -- plot, colorful characters, dramatic conflict -- to replace them with a collage of very short anecdotes, apocryphal legends, aphorisms, lurid gossip about writers and artists 'lives and deaths -- as they run through the aging Novelist's fragmented consciousness," Catherine Textier wrote in the New York Times Book Review in 2007, referring to his aptly titled "The Last Novel."

    David Markson Dead: Author Idolized By David Foster Wallace Dies At 82 2010

  • I decided tambowrites had the best name for the "reaching the end of this book is like cutting something in half and then again and again but it's infinite because you can always cut it in half again" syndrome: Novelist's Event Horizon.

    argh tambowrites 2007

  • Novelist's attempt to secure place amongst the greats falters

    Novelist's attempt to secure place amongst the greats falters 2007

  • I have, in other words, reached the Novelist's Event Horizon.

    nothing else matters irishkate 2007

  • Novelist's attempt to secure place amongst the greats falters

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • Olly's Onions: Novelist's attempt to secure place amongst the greats falters skip to main | skip to sidebar

    Novelist's attempt to secure place amongst the greats falters 2007

  • This is against the odds for a variety of reasons, starting with having played CoH until 2pm, and including the moral equivilant of the Novelist's Event Horizon: I'm making small changes that take a long time to work out, so I'm spending a lot of time on one or two pages and not feeling like I'm getting anywhere.

    yay! desperance 2007

  • I LOVE this exchange, between Pluvialis and a friend re a popular novelist known by both : And when the envy reaches heights as high as it did this morning, when I leafed bitterly through her four-page feature illustrated with photos of herself on beaches and in spas, all I need to do is remember my dear friend B telling me why he'd bought The Novelist's first novel.

    Zoomorphic Art, Plus 2006

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