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Roddy Doyle on E.L. Doctorow
Roddy DoyleI always read. My memory tells me—it insists—that I read every waking hour. I’d wake up with a book on my face.
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Poetry
Christine SchuttAt age fourteen I was given a small paperback with a patriotic cover: Contemporary American Poetry, edited by Donald Hall.
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On Samuel Beckett
Rick MoodyIn freshman year of college, I was first exposed to Samuel Beckett’s novel Murphy. For a guy who had mainly been reading science...
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On Thomas Wolfe
Philip RothIn 1949, when I was sixteen, I stumbled on Thomas Wolfe, who died at thirty-eight in 1938, and who made numerous adolescents aside from me devotees...
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On Toni Morrison
Martha SouthgateI was in college and had an unexpected lull between things I had, had, had to read. Though I’d always been a voracious reader, I did very little...