Status Updates From Negotiating with the Dead: ...

“- the secret is that it isn't the writer who decides whether or not his work is relevant. Instead it's the reader.”

“The theatre needs me,'" he says, '"and the regime needs the theatre.'" How right he is - totalitarianism is always somewhat theatrical. And, like the theatre, it leans heavily on illusion: grand facades, with squalor and string-pulling behind the scenes.”

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