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Norman Mailer headbutted Gore Vidal. Hemingway was less than kind to Fitzgerald. Truman Capote betrayed his closest friends.
Byron and Keats weren't exactly exchanging compliments.
8 literary feuds, centuries of bruised egos.
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We call things “Orwellian” all the time.
But have we become so obsessed with what George Orwell predicted that we've forgotten how extraordinarily well he wrote?
Why does his prose still sound so modern, eighty years later?
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A star rating tells you whether somebody liked a book.
Criticism asks why.
On Martin Amis, The Rachel Papers and the lost pleasure of reading somebody who could turn an argument about a book into literature itself.
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Joan Didion takes the chaos of grief and gives it extraordinarily precise sentences.
The experience is messy. The book isn’t.
What happens between those two things?
The writer.
On The Year of Magical Thinking and turning life into literature.tangledprosewritingthroughit…
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For eighteen years, Jean-Claude Romand’s family thought he was a doctor.
There was no job. No career. No secret second life.
Emmanuel Carrère’s problem was how to write about the emptiness behind the lie.
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Joe McGinniss gained a murderer’s trust, then wrote a book portraying him as guilty.
Janet Malcolm thought the real story was what happened between the writer and his subject.
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ALT The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm and Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss, exploring trust and betrayal in nonfiction
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas isn't really about drugs.
It's about waking up after the American dream has gone bad.
Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo journalism and whether something can be inaccurate but still true.
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Donna Tartt hasn't published a novel since 2013.
Meanwhile, The Secret History became huge again, dark academia exploded, BookTok happened and a new generation discovered her.
Somehow, Donna Tartt became more culturally relevant by saying almost nothing. tangledprosewritingthroughit…
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Gary Gilmore became famous. His victims became footnotes.
Norman Mailer turned the story into a masterpiece.
The Executioner’s Song asks an uncomfortable question: can a writer ever simply tell the truth?tangledprosewritingthroughit…
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Four people were murdered. Truman Capote turned their deaths into literature.
In Cold Blood is brilliant, unsettling and not always trustworthy.
It may also be the one true crime book everyone should read.
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Joan Didion warned us that “writers are always selling somebody out”. Rachel Cusk’s Life of M raises an uncomfortable question: what happens when you recognise yourself in somebody else’s fiction? tangledprosewritingthroughit…
ALT Rachel Cusk’s Life of M has prompted speculation about Natalie Portman. But when does inspiration become betrayal, and can you ever really trust a writer?
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Some of the most unforgettable novels are led by liars, manipulators and morally grey characters. tangledprosewritingthroughit…
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England's match against Argentina has renewed interest in the Falklands War. If you're looking to understand what happened in 1982, here are the three books I'd recommend first. tangledprosewritingthroughit…
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James Joyce did it. Cormac McCarthy did it. Sally Rooney did it. Paul Lynch did it.
But when did abandoning quotation marks stop being experimental and start becoming an expectation of literary fiction?
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Great writers don't just describe places.
They make those places impossible to forget.
For Annie Proulx, the American West isn't a backdrop. It's the central character. tangledprosewritingthroughit…
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Writing the pitch before the query: What literary agents are really looking for tangledprosewritingthroughit…
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Beautiful prose can make a worldview feel inevitable. This essay asks whether literary admiration can survive closer scrutiny. tangledprosewritingthroughit…
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One writer. Two names. Several lives. Christopher St John Sprigg wrote crime novels. Christopher Caudwell wrote Marxist criticism and died fighting in Spain. tangledprosewritingthroughit…
ALT Image alt text Copies of Studies in a Dying Culture by Christopher Caudwell, Death of an Airman by Christopher St John Sprigg and Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. Image description Three essential books for exploring Christopher Caudwell’s world: his cultural criticism, his Golden Age crime fiction and Orwell’s first-hand account of the Spanish Civil War.
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Reading has always been social. The literary internet simply made the conversation louder, faster and harder to ignore. tangledprosewritingthroughit…
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Are novels really getting shorter and simpler, or is fiction adapting to a culture where attention has become harder to defend? tangledprosewritingthroughit…
