1. Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer has a chapter titled "Married To Tolstoy" about favorite Rothian theme of the pain great writers inflict on the near & dear. Could easily be Married to Dickens, Married to Woolf, Married to Cheever, Married to Naipaul, etc.
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3. By Fulford's account, even when he was 9, everyone around Gould expected great things about him. There was even a teenage Salieri in the neighborhood who bore a grudge against the budding Canadian Mozart.pic.twitter.com/SPDT7uf0qy
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4. Gould was a genius, Fulford not that, in fact a poor student who dropped out of high school to become a sports writer. Yet through the spark of his friendship with Gould Fulford ended becoming, unexpectedly, a writer & critic of distinction. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/robert-fulford-glenn-gould/ …
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is fulford the dog or the person?
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The kid playing hockey!
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Jackson Pollack, Philip Guston both went to the same high school(and in fact so did Reuben Kadish)
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