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...Saints or sinners, newsworthy names found a welcoming home between W&N covers....
...And the character says he’s not an N-word writing about N-words, he’s a fairy writing about fairies. That piece of dialogue, I thought, was really very good, which is why it stuck in my head....
...It was somehow more polite in a restaurant to whisper a minatory “E-N-T” than to make the possibly audible observation “English Next Table”....
...He later hid for years as an alternative healer — as recreated in an astonishing novel by Edna O’Brien. There are degrees of nationalism of course....
...He left W&N in 1967 to become an editorial director at Jonathan Cape. But by this point his marriage was failing and he was growing restless....
...In a candid 1999 New York Times Magazine essay, he grappled with his shame over discovering his use of the word “n***er” in a 1981 letter to a friend....
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