Oct 13, 2008
Asked by a fastidious, middle-aged author of two obscure books why he wants to be a writer, Gary Simson, an aspiring young litterateur, replies: “To convey my experience so that I become part of my readers’ experience, so, as you might say, neither of us is alone.” Eli Fogel, the middle-aged writer, writes because it 5 in me to write. Because I can’t not write.” At work on his third novel, Fogel has had “visions of himself dying before the book was completed. It was a terrible thought.”
It is a terrible reality that Bernard Malamud, who conveyed his experience so...
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