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Read the essay ”Autobiography and the Novel”, adapted (as many of these essays) from a lecture given at Emory University (which incidentally also holds the Rushdie archive, referenced in the essay).
— Jul 04, 2026 12:35PM
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Read the essay, ”Hans Christian Andersen”.
— Aug 27, 2026 09:31AM
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Read ”Notes on Sloth: From Saligia to Oblomov”.
— Aug 27, 2026 02:15AM
The_Mad_Swede
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Read the essays, ”Harold Pinter (1930–2008)” and ”Introduction to The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. IV”.
— Jun 26, 2026 04:36PM
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Read the essay, ”Gabo and I”, which was originally a lecture on Gabriel García Márquez and his works.
— Jun 25, 2026 12:18PM
The_Mad_Swede
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Read the essays, “Samuel Beckett’s Novels” and “Cervantes and Shakespeare”, both of which were originally introductions in other books.
— Jun 23, 2026 07:18AM
The_Mad_Swede
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Read the essay, “Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five”.
— Jun 23, 2026 01:57AM
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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
The_Mad_Swede
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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