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More literary insults…and this time it’s personal

Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
A harsh review got an equally harsh retort this week, not from the author (authors are always told to keep quiet about bad reviews), but a clearly angry man who had helped to propel the novel into the international limelight . The book is Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road…

HISTORY AND FICTION: UNVEILING THE PAST

By The Owl Lady January 7, 2015 Leave a comment

…The supreme expression of story is the novel…Richard Flanagan, winner of 2014 Booker. Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)

By The Owl Lady October 19, 2014 Leave a comment

Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As a species it is story that distinguishes us, and one of the supreme expressions of story is the novel. Novels are not content. Nor are…

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Tag Archive | Richard Flanagan

More literary insults…and this time it’s personal

HISTORY AND FICTION: UNVEILING THE PAST

…The supreme expression of story is the novel…Richard Flanagan, winner of 2014 Booker. Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)

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