
Colm Tóibín
Front Row
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Are You Writing About Yourself?
The master is a love poem to pet a place and the past. It was about that business of sleeping where the dead come in really odd ways, not n the way you would want them to. And when you write about a writer, are you always writing about yourself as well? Your job is to make the reader so immersed in saint thomas mann's life,. or indeed, in brooklyn, in the life of alis lacey, who wasn't a writer.
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