http://walt.lishost.org/2009/01/maybe-not-the-best-ever-but-perhaps-the-most-surprising/ The library voice of the radical middle. Thu, 23 May 2013 16:58:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://walt.lishost.org/2009/01/maybe-not-the-best-ever-but-perhaps-the-most-surprising/comment-page-1/#comment-35388 laura Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:08:22 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=961#comment-35388 That was a great issue, and, I believe, the precursor to many of us saying, “so I reviewed the literature — by which I mean the blogs.” (I think the line first showed up on Uncontrolled Vocabulary, but I could be wrong about that. Anyway, this C&I provides the intellectual justification for that practice elegantly and eloquently.) As for the surprise, well, I don’t think there’s a lot of correlation between how well a writer’s life is going and how well he’s writing. I say this both as someone who used to write and as someone who has read a lot of biographies of writers and has observed more than a few of them at close range.

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