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“Our courses do not diverge; but as the web of destiny is woven it is fulled, and we are cast more and more into the centre.” — Thoreau

Literary voices : BBC puts recordings of Woolf, Steinbeck, Doyle, Waugh, Nabokov, and more online
Margaret Drabble claims she us being pressured to “dumb down” her writing : “‘They don’t quite know whether I’m highbrow or literary,’ she said.”
Bloomsbury gives it away : In order to get more back
Will sell rare books for gas money : Signs of the times
Recommended books on writing : Not this list, a different one
Art beats science! : Doesn’t it? (In any case, Jonathan Hoeffler writes very small.)

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