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Edmund de Waal: âIf I need to forget everyÂthing, I read Lee Child. Honestlyâ
The artist, potter and author on his middle-of-the-night anxiety reading, wanting to be a poet, and the Japanese classic he wishes he had read
âMuch of my ceramic work is a conversation with the poetry of Paul Celanâ ⦠Edmund de Waal. Photograph: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images
âMuch of my ceramic work is a conversation with the poetry of Paul Celanâ ⦠Edmund de Waal. Photograph: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images
EdmunddeWaal
Fri 23 Apr 2021 05.00 EDT
The book I am currently reading
Itâs never one book. I am now liberated from reading about Paris so Iâm finishing Hermione Leeâs great biography of Tom Stoppard and feeling exhilarated by the stretch of ideas within it. Iâm on the last chapters of Anthony Trollopeâs
The Books That Made Me: 8 Writers on Their Literary Inspirations
In decades past, the Book Review occasionally asked young authors about their biggest influences. For our 125th anniversary, we put the question to a new generation.
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April 15, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
In 1984, The New York Times Book Review presented a group of writers under 40 with a simple challenge: Name the writer or writers who have most influenced your work and explain how. While many of these authors were just beginning their careers, they later became some of the most widely read and respected artists of their generation Ann Beattie, Denis Johnson, Gloria Naylor and Frederick Barthelme, to name only a few.
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What do we do when an author dies with their work unfinished? Do we let it molder in vaults, stash it away in archives, or publish it for all the world to see even if that’s not what the author intended? The problem crops up more often than you might think, since most authors have many less-than-polished drafts hiding somewhere in their files. And while some authors have asked for unfinished work to be destroyed, doing so just might deprive the world of a treasure. Read on for several examples of unfinished manuscripts from famous authors some of which you might not have known were technically incomplete.
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