SalmanRushdie
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Zadie Smith's beautiful, important piece about what's happening to libraries. Please read.
about 7 hours ago
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Hay festival today. Forecast: rain, more rain. Literary mudbath, here I come. Can't wait!
12:28 AM Jun 2nd
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.@ "Never write history until you can hear the people speak." Also very good advice for fiction writers. I've never forgotten it.
3:36 PM Jun 1st
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in reply to chicaderock
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Went to Cambridge today and met my old history supervisor Arthur Hibbert (now 92) after 44 years. My greatest teacher. A very moving day.
3:30 PM Jun 1st
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@ Funny.
10:13 AM Jun 1st
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@ Yes! Yes! But it's so much better not to be pressed...
1:45 PM May 31st
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@ A lot of fun. And home by 9.30! Even better.
1:39 PM May 31st
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in reply to mariellaf1
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@ well.... good luck this time.... :)
8:36 AM May 31st
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in reply to riyasen_
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@ amazing. that hacker really loves you! use a mixture of letters and numbers in your password to make it harder to hack.
8:30 AM May 31st
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@ hacked AGAIN?!?!?
8:18 AM May 31st
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@ Hi Lisa. September 18th.
6:08 AM May 31st
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in reply to LisaAppignanesi
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Rothko-esque UK cover for the memoir:
5:09 AM May 31st
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@ @ Yes many of those images are really powerful.
3:30 PM May 30th
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@ Yes, thanks, I did know. Saw him last week in NYC. And I'm glad you were just kidding about the mighty Bob!
4:16 AM May 30th
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in reply to AmishTrivedi
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@ The same is true of Dylan as of Shakespeare or what he said about Woody Guthrie: that his writing teaches you how to live.
2:43 AM May 30th
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@ Hi to Bob. But if you think Elvis, who never wrote a song, is a "trillion times" better than Dylan, Mr Coover might disagree.
2:41 AM May 30th
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in reply to AmishTrivedi
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@ Yes, which is why I know he's Canadian, not American.
2:34 AM May 30th
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in reply to inrainbows08
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Note to those carping at Obama on Dylan: "there is not a bigger giant" does not mean there aren't other giants as big. Gershwin fans, relax.
2:31 AM May 30th
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Obama, giving Bob Dylan the Presidential Medal of Freedom: "There is not a bigger giant in the history of American music." This is true.
2:25 AM May 30th
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@ I'm glad you enjoyed it!
1:58 AM May 30th
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