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...But this can be forgiven in the context of Gombrowicz’s prose style, which so conspicuously wants to break free of its own constraints....
...“How we are talking about romance novels is very different now,” says Susan Swinwood from Canary Street Press, an imprint of HarperCollins....
...The lucidity of Janan Ganesh’s prose (“Liberals must overcome their aversion to conflict”, Opinion, August 17) advocating for the supposed virtues of muscular masculine liberalism, especially in regard to...
...It is a curious, if initially underwhelming, premise from an author once described by Susan Sontag as a “master of apocalypse who inspires comparison with Gogol and Melville”....
...Susan Sontag, rumoured to pen “her essays in a marathon of typing, smoking, and speed”, and the novelist Mary McCarthy put in regular appearances....
...That prohibition has been flouted, notably when Susan Sontag directed the play in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war, also cutting the second act....
...with Susan Lehman, and Charlie Kaufman wrote the absurdist Antkind. So, what’s motivating these Hollywood veterans to ditch the camera and pick up a pen?...
...Her prose’s sharp edge and rhythmic bent were emulated by Joan Didion, who passed them down to authors across the generations, from Bret Easton Ellis to Rachel Kushner and Emma Cline....
...In a habit the Japanese call tsundoku, many of us acquire books we never get around to reading: Susan Sontag called her library “an archive of longings”....
...The first of those four prose fictions, Vertigo, was published in German in 1990....
...Her chief models were Joan Didion and James Baldwin, both of whom are central to the courses she now teaches at Northwestern, and she has written of being given “permission to think” by Susan Sontag, whose...
...A meditation on loneliness, the intensity of the inner world and the consolation found in literature, the book signalled Costello as a master of quiet but devastating prose....
...“I’m always trying to figure out how better to translate the internal experience of a person into film or into prose. It’s my preoccupation.”...
...Choi’s prose is damp with tears and sweat, bruised with hurt and lust, sprinkled with sugar, salt and e-numbers. Hormones practically drip off the page....
...O’Toole makes up in joyous prose what he lacks in happy prognosis....
...With The Friend — Nunez’s eighth book (she’s the author of six previous novels and the wonderful Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag) — she’s found the perfect pitch....
...At the same time, he taps into a more contemporary phenomenon — the rise of the “lyric essay”, a hybrid of memoir, prose poetry and cultural criticism that the American polemicist David Shields, among others...
...Each chapter is introduced by quotes from the likes of Audre Lorde, Alice Walker and Michelle Obama, and Welteroth’s own compelling prose is filled with inspirational soundbites....
...A dazzling exploration of passion and submission, which resounds with echoes of Nabokov’s prose....
...Daniel calls Bellow’s ruinous, bitter, decade-long legal tussle with his third wife Susan Glassman “a textbook approach about how not to get divorced”....
...In Sempre Susan, Sigrid Nunez’s illuminating memoir of Susan Sontag, we learn that the formidable American cultural critic and writer made something of a habit of hijacking her own public appearances....
...With her combination of acute analysis and neat, eminently readable prose, Dean is a more than worthy chronicler of these impressive writers....
...The titular mother is the suffragette Susan B. Anthony. Gertrude Stein’s libretto is in her characteristic fractured surrealist prose-poetry, droll and sweet....
...As a storyteller who writes straightforward prose — every sentence does its job without fireworks — Boyd sometimes gets snubbed by critics....
...At the urging of his friend Susan Rice, a future US national security adviser, he joined Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign....
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