Luckily for you, you can close the book The Postman Always Rings Twice and break out of it, and James M. Cain can't. I can't think of any redeeming feature he has, but he's extremely compelling.
One of my favorite pieces of advice about being a writer came from a very formative teacher I had as an undergraduate, named John Hersey. On our last… - Jonathan Dee
One of my favorite pieces of advice about being a writer came from a very formative teacher I had as an undergraduate, named John Hersey. On our last…
- Jonathan Dee
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all … - Jonathan Dee
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all …
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author. - Jonathan Dee
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on th… - Jonathan Dee
The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on th…
I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people. - Jonathan Dee
I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.
You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind. - Jonathan Dee
You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind.
Kenneth Branagh. There was a time in my life when people would tell me constantly that I look like him. I could do a lot worse than that. - Jonathan Dee
Kenneth Branagh. There was a time in my life when people would tell me constantly that I look like him. I could do a lot worse than that.
The Postman Always Rings Twice that's a book that I think every writer should read - that has to do with technique. But it's also a novel narrated by… - Jonathan Dee
The Postman Always Rings Twice that's a book that I think every writer should read - that has to do with technique. But it's also a novel narrated by…
New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures. - Jonathan Dee
New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.
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