Invocation to the Muse

O DIVINE POESY GODDESS-DAUGHTER OF ZEUS SUSTAIN FOR ME THIS SONG OF THE VARIOUS-MINDED MAN WHO AFTER HE HAD PLUNDERED THE INNERMOST CITADEL OF HALLOWED TROY WAS MADE

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Edgar Rice Burroughs: the most influential writer

“I love to say it because it upsets everyone terribly—Burroughs is probably the most influential writer in the entire history of the world.” From this amazing interview that

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Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen

You’ve got to hand it to a guy who writes a social novel these days, especially one that’s almost 600 pages long and sprawls across four decades. Jonathan

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