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The essential chutzpah

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own persona.” Jim Shepard quotes Oscar Wilde in a piece on using real life in fiction.

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Twain, quote magnet

Quotations scholar says Mark Twain is the most common victim of erroneous quote attribution in the U.S.

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Hilary Mantel on her new book and Henry VIII

Joan Acocella’s profile sent me off on a Hilary Mantel binge several years ago. I started with Beyond Black and quickly made my way through most of the rest of her work. Now Wolf Hall beckons, but I don’t want to start in on it until I have a chunk of time to focus properly. Meanwhile, I’m bookmarking this video . . .

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