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here, plainly, Updike is more interested in his personal filing-system than in his normal courteousness towards the reader.
Martin Amis • The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage International)
What happened was I wanted to make the Great American Comedy. I was reading a lot of joke books and that was the other dream, to be able to write a joke book. Like a novel consisting of just one-liners. I was reading a lot of the Milton Berle books, and before that I’d wanted to make the Henny Youngman biography, it was called Take My Life, Please!
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Recently, New York Times Magazine writer Sam Anderson and I spoke about how describing something well is both an act of incredible generosity and a literary challenge of the highest order.
Craig Mod • Looking Closely Is Everything
