8 Books We Want To Give To All Our Friends

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I guess I’m into vocational introspection this month, as here is another book about writing. The book details then first-time novelist Nicholson Baker’s attempt to write an essay foron his admiration for John Updike—though Baker has, at the time, read less than half of the author’s work, and refuses to read or reread a single word more until he’s finished with his article. The meditation on Updike is also one on memory and ambition.

” Here Baker tangles questions of autofiction, authorial intent, readerly fallacy, and ethics into one little package: “How can Updike have the whatever, the disempathy...to put in print that his wife appeared ugly to him that morning, especially in so vivid a way?” He is even more upset when he calls the small book publisher that put out two of Nabokov’s books “a miserable little bindery.

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