Book, September 1st, 2001
What happens if you strip a writer bare? What happens if, like a grade-schooler wielding a soft pink eraser, you rub away the penciled-in curlicues of a writer's life? Get rid of physical trappings? Take away the safaris, the drunken fountain cavortings, the quiet garden tending? What if you distill the writer to such an extent that even the writing itself--the small-gestured and yet intensely corporeal act of putting down the words--is no longer the ritual morning spent writing longhand on ledger sheets, or the late afternoon banging on a near-antique Royal typewriter, or even the postmidnigh...
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