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I associated excellence in writing with New York City.
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Excellence
New York City
Associated
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At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.
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Beatnik
Resident
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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Early Years
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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Confident
Titanic
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I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world.
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Diving
Readers
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Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
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Fantasy
Universes
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In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.
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Graduate School
Graduate
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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Teenage
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
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Me Weird New
Island
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I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
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Carolina
Eastern
North Carolina
Tobacco
Rural
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I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
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Cities
Bug
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I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'Essential Billy Joel.'
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Billy
Billy Joel
Essential
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Early Thirties
Hungarian
Postwar
Thirties
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Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.
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Gore
Heyday
Forms
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A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know.
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Babel
Fragmented
Impression
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When I get online, there's this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the part of me that I like the least.
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Narcissism
Cycle
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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Danger
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I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.
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Next Thing
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In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
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French Literature
Huge Fan
Hugo
Les
Les Miserables
Preferred
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The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer 'How should novels be?' but 'Why write novels at all?'
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Aesthetic
Central
Literary
Ipad
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The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.
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Dying
Gout
Shattered
Useful
Frighten
Inflated
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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Contact
City New More
Frequently
Trips
Weekends
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I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets.
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Streets
Poets
Whitman
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If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do.
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If I Could
Intelligent
Hilary
Researcher
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Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book - you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.
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Vivid
Claim
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I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a rest-stop in Mississippi and feeling jet-lagged at my return from Middle-earth.
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Mississippi
Ohio
Return
Hobbit
Trip
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I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.
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Appetite
Canvas
Liberated
Real Thing
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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Curate
Facebook
Feeds
Herd
Publicly
Walls
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I came to feel that, in addition to Imre Kertesz, Hungary has produced at least three contemporary novelists who deserve the Nobel: Peter Nadas, Peter Esterhazy and Laszlo Krasznahorkai.
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Contemporary
Deserve
Hungary
Nobel
Novelists
Peter
Addition
Produced
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I was working my first adult job, a quasi journalistic job, writing content for a website. In the offices, we had banks of TVs, papers, a constant media stream, which was unusual for 2001.
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Constant
Journalistic
Papers
Unusual
Website
Banks
Offices
Stream
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You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream.
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Distinction
Rigor
Absorb
Version
Bloodstream
Cultural
Sweep
Thoroughly
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Definitely, something is happening out there in Internet world at any given moment, but the likelihood that it's something that can't wait until that evening for you to find out about it is very small.
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Evening
Likelihood
Any Given Moment
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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Fretting
Virginia
Woolf
Tolstoy
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The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.
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Best Experience Me
Sentence
Weirdly
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I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.
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Character
Generations
Household
Magician
Royal
Family Work Where
Drawer
Minor
Produced
Several
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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Escape
Recognized
Spirits
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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Chasing
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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Hugo
Les
Les Miserables
Sewer
Spare
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Reading isn't about managing expectations. In certain ways, writing is. You're trying to send signals early in a book about what might be coming later, but I think worrying about the kind of chatter around a book is something I try and stay as far away from when I'm reading.
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Chatter
Far Away
Signals
Send
Worrying
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One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.
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Outcast
Peers
Refuge
Stuck
Cyclical
Sought
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