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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jan 2014

      1. A few thoughts on bad books by great writers. Bad books should be seen as necessary failures that push writers to better work.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jan 2014
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      2. Philip Roth wrote a string of middling, flawed & terrible books in the early 1970s (Great American Novel, Our Gang, My Life as a Man)

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jan 2014
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      3. Flawed Roth novels were a necessary stage where he worked out his outrageous comic spiel & anger, before more controlled Zuckerman series

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jan 2014
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      4. Updike's Rabbit Redux is weakest of book of series (especially utterly unconvincing engagement with black radicalism & hippies) BUT ...

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jan 2014
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      5. ...with Redux, Updike became more ambitious. Rabbit, Run was narrow book but Redux & later books tried to encompass USA

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jan 2014
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      6. "Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You" is Alice Munro's weakest collection, a book of uncertain, undeveloped stories.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jan 2014
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      7. Yet with "Something" Munro broke with her earlier reflexive habit of epiphanic endings, shuffling narrative deck: seeds of great work.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jan 2014

      7. We have to fail to succeed: writers have to risk writing atrocious books in order to get the courage to do their best work.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jan 2014
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          8. Middle period Dickens isn't bad but it's often flawed, thwarted or not quite cohesive: Barnaby Rudge, Old Curiosity Shop, even Chuzzlewit

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jan 2014
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          8. Yet in his middling middle-period works we see Dickens figuring out how to organize a big novel, preparing for Bleak House, etc.

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        2. Jessica Johnson‏Verified account @ejessicajohnson 7 Jan 2014
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          “@HeerJeet: Writers have to risk writing atrocious books in order to get the courage to do their best work” u know my story with this

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        3. Gare Joyce‏Verified account @GareJoyceNHL 7 Jan 2014
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          fixed @thegoodshopper @HeerJeet Writers have 2 risk writing atrocious books in order 2 get courage 2 do best work” u know everyone's story

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        2. Adam Sternbergh‏ @sternbergh 7 Jan 2014
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          @HeerJeet Curious on thoughts re: current novelists typical pace. Most won't get to write 3 bad novels since they only write 1 every 10+yrs.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jan 2014
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          @sternbergh The slower you are, the higher the stakes, which makes you slow down even more: the Ralph Ellison story.

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        1. Rod McKie‏ @rodmckie 7 Jan 2014
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          @HeerJeet @agpasquella I'm ahead of the curve, Jeet. I've failed to succeed my entire life ;)

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        2. mvsyyz‏ @mvsyyz 7 Jan 2014
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          @HeerJeet will Martin Amis write a good book again?

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jan 2014
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          @mvsyyz The odds are against it. He seems more like Heinlein than Roth.

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        1. Amazon Syren‏ @amazon_syren 7 Jan 2014
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          @HeerJeet Thanks for the reminder. <*goes back to Draft One, Version Three*>

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