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Sep 6, 2021, 9 tweets

A bluffers guide to #ReadABookDay now follows...

"Yes, Mary McCarthy is a much neglected novelist now and that's a shame..."

"Gee it really is hard to argue against Emile Durkheim..."

"'The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.' Wow. Just... wow!"

"I'm telling you Katie you have to read White Noise before you read Underworld. You have to get into the rhythm of his sentences. DeLillo is all about the sentence..."

"Margaret Atwood opened my eyes, but Octavia Butler... she blew my mind!"

"My Aeolic Greek is a little rusty, but if that isn't a motto of Sappho then it surely should be."

"No madam, I'm not that J.D. Salinger."

"Then we throw our manuscripts into the fire and that's the end of the writer's retreat. We're free baby, free of our hangups and ready to really write! Anyway, next year we're in Montreal..."

Happy #ReadABookDay everybody!

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