[HN Gopher] Ian McEwan on Bach, Philip Roth and Living an Episod...
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       Ian McEwan on Bach, Philip Roth and Living an Episodic Life (2019)
        
       Author : apollinaire
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2021-03-06 16:33 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | motohagiography wrote:
       | McEwan says so much with so few words. I was at an event (the
       | machines like us book tour author talks) where he told the
       | audience he attributed his success not so much to being good at
       | writing as he was at not-writing, a kind of play on essentially
       | only writing the good stuff.
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       | That miasmic ambiguity on the edge of humour, conceit, and
       | arresting clarity all felt like experiencing a classic McEwan
       | moment. He's become a bit of a national treasure now and I think
       | his readers would benefit from braver editors who don't treat his
       | stuff as so precious, but his book, The Innocent made me want to
       | write.
        
       | tlb wrote:
       | > "You have to write as though your parents are dead."
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       | The "dance like no one is watching" for writers.
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       | Young novelists have, in the back of their mind, what their
       | parents will think reading their book. By contrast, hackers of my
       | generation mostly didn't have to worry about our parents judging
       | our work. I wonder how much of a damper on creativity it will
       | create for my kids (now in college studying CS) that I am
       | reasonably able to criticize theirs.
        
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