From The New Yorker: “Far and away the greatest menace to the writer – any writer, beginning or otherwise – is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer’s only unrelenting, genuine enemy.”
2. Ten books that changed the world
From The Guardian: From Euclid’s Elements to Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, and from Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex to Shakespeare First Folio … 10 authors choose books “not of an age, but for all time”.
3. James Wood & Karl Ove Knausgaard, Writing My Struggle: An Exchange
From the Paris Review archive.
4. Imagine There’s No Gender: The Long History of Feminist Utopian Literature
From The Atlantic: From Wonder Woman to Shulamith Firestone to Joanna Russ, visions of societies run by women or absent of gender altogether have existed for almost a century.
5. An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope
It is said that every aspiring critic should read this poem before writing their first review.
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