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Olivia Laing - You're Booked

You're Booked

CHAPTER

The Importance of Researching Art

I really love Patricia Heistmith's talented Mr Ripley novels the whole series of the Ripley novels and there's a thread in that that's all about art forgery. I'm really fascinating and knowledgeable and done with the right sort of lightness of touch that it didn't feel like I'm writing a serious novel about art. Any writer especially writer fiction who can do that research and have that depth of knowledge but be sparing with it was very pleasurable for me to read. Henry James said you can hear him as he's rushing carrying the tea tray from room to room audibly panting he's trying so hard and I just thought oh that’s the audibly pant

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