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Finished the essay, ”Another Writer’s Beginning”, which is an expanded version of Rushdie’s inaugural Eudora Welty Lecture from 2016. This also wraps up Part One of this collection.
— Jun 11, 2026 07:28AM
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Read the essays, “Samuel Beckett’s Novels” and “Cervantes and Shakespeare”, both of which were originally introductions in other books.
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Read the essay, “Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five”.
— 11 hours, 0 min ago
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Read the essay, ”Philip Roth”, which was originally delivered as a lecture at Newark Public Library on 27 September 2018.
— Jun 17, 2026 11:40AM
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Started on the essay, ”Another Writer’s Beginnings”.
— Jun 09, 2026 01:08PM
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Read the essay, ”Heraclitus”, originally a lecture given at Emory University in the US.
— Jun 08, 2026 11:50PM
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Read the first essay, “Wonder Tales”, in which Rushdie discusses how these wonder tales are at the roots of an alternative literary tradition to the more strictly realistic one, even though both (according to Rushdie at least) are attempts at telling truths about the human condition.
— Mar 08, 2026 03:29PM
