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. ...with Redux, Updike became more ambitious. Rabbit, Run was narrow book but Redux & later books tried to encompass USA
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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. Yet with "Something" Munro broke with her earlier reflexive habit of epiphanic endings, shuffling narrative deck: seeds of great work.
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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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@sternbergh The slower you are, the higher the stakes, which makes you slow down even more: the Ralph Ellison story.3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@sternbergh Right: for a writer Roth is a healthier model than Ellison (who got fly-papered by the need to produce a 2nd masterpiece).2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@sternbergh As with writers, so with people: fear of failure breeds paralysis.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@nathanwhitlock @sternbergh Some writers are like 40 year old virgins: performance anxiety becomes quick sand.
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