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...Grossman often used Quixote to exemplify the chains of influence that translation could enable: Cervantes to William Faulkner to García Márquez to Salman Rushdie....
...And maybe-- I think you're right in saying that it's a kind of return to an earlier voice. I had the sort of feeling, in a literary sense, of going home....
...No one likes to face their own possible obsolescence — especially not writers, who prefer to believe that literary talent is unique and irreplaceable.Much of this is just nerves....
...No, it’s a natural right that we have to create something, and sometimes you have to step outside the strictures of government.”...
...In his own books he eschewed the merely “literary”, deliberately limiting his vocabulary and simplifying his style....
...to ponder this, having conducted seven interviews on stage at three separate FT events: our conference on commodities in Lausanne; our “Future of News” conference in New York; and the FT Weekend Oxford Literary...
...“John was someone who offered up very many literary metaphors, just in his own life,” Reed tells me on the phone. “Even the idea of ‘Shit Town’, which he was so obsessed with, is a literary idea....
...He invested in a management buyout of Curtis Brown, the literary agency that had made the reputations of John Steinbeck, William Faulkner and Norman Mailer, becoming its chairman....
...It’s about the direction of travel, and right now it’s the wrong direction.” Additional reporting by Elaine Moore in London...
...In other words, The End of the Tour is a movie about a few wintry days in the life of an intensely private and tormented writer just coming into a major literary reputation, who is portrayed by an actor...
...“Every time I tried to put it down in one of these historical settings it didn’t feel right,” he says....
...Most striking, however, was the animal rights movement....
...The firm is involved with clients in film, television, music, theatre and the literary world....
...“It’s just grandstanding,” said Ed Victor, a literary agent....
...the true old-time wonders of Faulkner and friends....
...He has won many literary prizes, including the PEN/Faulkner award, and is a professor of English at the University of Southern California. … What was your earliest ambition?...
...Caroline Michel, chief executive of literary agents PFD, says some of the group’s authors have achieved huge success in ebooks where it proved elusive in physical books....
...“This is a literary prize and it is given on literary merit alone,” he said....
...Buckley Jr, the equally patrician doyen of the rising right wing....
...A month later, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, the ultimate US literary garland, and, soon after, the LA Times book prize....
...It has hired literary agent Laurence Kirchbaum to build an imprint with splashy signings such as Tim Ferriss, the self-help author of The 4-Hour Workweek, acquired full rights to 450 children’s books from...
...Who are your literary influences? There’s a whole lot of them: Charlie Higgins, Joyce, Heaney, Angela Carter, William Faulkner, Roddy Doyle – a great mate of mine – and Borges....
...What kind of dress would give me the strength to slip away at the right moment? A slip dress, naturally....
...The aforementioned O’Neill, Faulkner and Hemingway all won literature’s top prize....
...He’s right, the tequila is mellow and smooth. “Isn’t that nice? Cheers!”...
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