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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Fodder for Thomas Bernhard's The Loser, too!
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Love that book.
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There's an interesting crosslink with the whole debate about cities and agglomeration. What's the balance between being embittered by excellence and inspired by it?
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Robert Fulford sounds damn near a genius, himself. Gould obviously recognized it; he wasn't the sort to give fools or bores the time of day. "Now, here's somebody I can't BS, nor can I dismiss him with a wave of my hand."
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A lovely review. My sense of him was too much formed by the Margaret Atwood story, and the chip on my shoulder re official CanCult. You’ve made me reconsider.
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"The nation's finest cultural critic"--really? Really???
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