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Catherine Lacey

No Easy Cure for Novel-Nausea

photo_zadie-smith Zadie Smith has a long essay in The Guardian that is half about David Shields’s forthcoming, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, and half about her own frustration with novel writing. Go read it. It’s longish, but it is completely worth the time. I am not going to include an excerpt here. Once you’ve read all of it, read the rest of this entry. READ MORE >

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November 21st, 2009 / 12:46 pm

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