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They had seen him give newspapers leaks—or issue statements—that dredged up for public view and turned into blaring headlines the dark secrets of men’s pasts.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
Siobhan ordered a gin and tonic, Rebus a Laphroaig.
Ian Rankin • A Question of Blood: An Inspector Rebus Novel (Inspector Rebus Mysteries)
“Hemingway loves to write for those of us who will never come face to face with danger.”
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
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Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
On the literary front, however, the survival of Ernest Hemingway is more miraculous still. An avid boxer and hunter, no respect for academia or elites, no time for politics or schmoozing, a lover of booze, feuds and four-letter words, all canalized through a blue-collar prose and brash persona... Far from the archetype, Hemingway was perhaps the an... See more
Dylano • To Write Like Hemingway: Part I | Hard to Kill
He drank and smoked too much, he had no money, he had the neuroses of a beta male and the know-it-all confidence of an alpha male.
Dolly Alderton • Good Material: THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE
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Tom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
He had no university education, but he read Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire three times before he was twenty-five.