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“Write the Book Only You Could Write” – Geoff Dyer on His Career and Endings

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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What I've Learned From John Burger's Non Fiction Books

I'm always flattered by any kind of comparison with any kind of rock band. But also, i shouldn't be too arrogant, because whenever you think you're doing something wildly original, then it always turns out that a particular thing you're doing has a lengthy pre history. I was very happy when he did a book like testaments betrayed, which was, you know, a book of essays in the form of variations, not claiming to be a novel in the formof variations. Yes, that alwas, felt like a very european thing to me, that you had thes sort of license on the continent to do. No, i don't think i sound lofty or

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