Nice! Your stuff is great. I'm a writer and my writing is all biographical. Total oroborus. I don't know if I'm on par with JK , it might all be pretensions of literary genuis. But I read my own stuff and make myself laugh... So I will always have that... And shocking people...
Writers biographies are awesome. I've built up a pretty sweet collection myself. I see it the same way as Americans reading about Jefferson or Lincoln, Italians reading about Garibaldi, Poles reading about Kosciuszko and Pilsudski, Brits reading about Henry VIII or Churchill and the French reading about Napoleon or Charles de Gaulle. I'm especially looking forward to reading Worthens biography of DH Lawrence, where in the very first pages of the introduction he demolishes the anti-Lawrence narratives that have dogged his reputation in one fell swoop.
Nice! Your stuff is great. I'm a writer and my writing is all biographical. Total oroborus. I don't know if I'm on par with JK , it might all be pretensions of literary genuis. But I read my own stuff and make myself laugh... So I will always have that... And shocking people...
"All political discourses, bourgeois and radical alike, are the mere vapourings of human egotism. Speechifying is the problem."
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Fascinating post, Michael. Thanks so much for this.
Writers biographies are awesome. I've built up a pretty sweet collection myself. I see it the same way as Americans reading about Jefferson or Lincoln, Italians reading about Garibaldi, Poles reading about Kosciuszko and Pilsudski, Brits reading about Henry VIII or Churchill and the French reading about Napoleon or Charles de Gaulle. I'm especially looking forward to reading Worthens biography of DH Lawrence, where in the very first pages of the introduction he demolishes the anti-Lawrence narratives that have dogged his reputation in one fell swoop.