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Journalist, jazz bore, recovered lawyer.

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    1. Levi Stahl‏ @levistahl May 24

      No reason, no order, my favorites: Barbara Pym Iris Murdoch Donald Westlake Anthony Powell Trollope Dickens James Rachel Cusk Ivy Compton-Burnett Wodehouse Rex Stout Ellis Peters Dorothy Dunnett Tolstoy Penelope Fitzgerald Alvaro Mutis Joseph Conrad George Eliot Portis Bolaño

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    2. Levi Stahl‏ @levistahl May 25

      I wish I could be as lovingly funny as Barbara Pym. I wish I could portray the abandon of heedless love like Iris Murdoch I wish I could write with the clarity and concision of Donald Westlake. I wish I could understand the long arc of human life like Anthony Powell.

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    3. Levi Stahl‏ @levistahl May 25

      I wish I could grasp the interaction of the social & the personal like Trollope. I wish I could write with the verbal verve of Dickens. I wish I could shade motivation and emotion like Henry James. I wish I could cut like Rachel Cusk. I wish I could kill like Ivy Compton-Burnett.

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    4. Levi Stahl‏ @levistahl May 25

      I wish I could balance sentences and find perfect the word like Wodehouse. I wish I could create a world as welcoming as Rex Stout. I wish I could convey the quiet of a lost world like Ellis Peters. I wish I could make historical info live like Dorothy Dunnett.

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    5. Levi Stahl‏ @levistahl May 25

      I wish I knew what Tolstoy knew about people. I wish I could achieve the gentle asperity of Penelope Fitzgerald. I wish I could mix weariness and enchantment like Alvaro Mutis. I wish I had as clear a sense of honor and individual responsibility as Joseph Conrad.

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      Chase Madar‏Verified account @ChaseMadar May 25
      Replying to @levistahl

      I love Alvaro Mutis! I can't take him 100% seriously though, he's so marinated in male intellectual self-pity--kind of like Bridget Jones Diary but for male intellectuals, and without the laffs. But sometimes I want that, need that!

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        2. Levi Stahl‏ @levistahl May 25
          Replying to @ChaseMadar

          Yeah, there's definitely a male quality to Mutis that's unavoidable, and a sense in which the world-weariness is all ultimately a joke. But lord, when I am in the mood, there's no one like him.

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        3. Levi Stahl‏ @levistahl May 25
          Replying to @levistahl @ChaseMadar

          Re-reading Conrad after reading Mutis was really interesting: I knew Mutis had lifted his milieu from Conrad, but I hadn't realized how closely he was also deliberately aping the prose style, but with different aims. It was fascinating.

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        4. Chase Madar‏Verified account @ChaseMadar May 25
          Replying to @levistahl

          would love to know more about Alvaro Mutis himself… the fact that he absconded from Colombia, wanted for embezzling from a big oil company (no?) makes me love him!

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        5. Levi Stahl‏ @levistahl May 25
          Replying to @ChaseMadar

          He wrote a book about his experience in prison that I would love to read, but my Spanish is far too limited. Really curious about it.

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        6. Chase Madar‏Verified account @ChaseMadar May 25
          Replying to @levistahl

          Yo sí leo español and I want to read this prison memoir! Will report back when I do…

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