I'm working on a review of Ed White's new novel, and it made me wonder if there's any classic (or just good) essays on novelists aging—what their later work is like compared to the early work, what generalizations (if any, and of course with exceptions) might be made, etc
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Replying to @MatthewSitman
Updike (in an New Yorker essay) and Edward Said (in a book) both wrote about "late style" in ways that touch on this.
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Here's the Updike. See also Irving Howe's essay on late Tolstoy in "Writer's Notebook"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/08/07/late-works …
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