Men as inspiration and material
More Christensen: “I have been collecting male muses ever since [8th grade]. Each of my novels has a different one.”
More Christensen: “I have been collecting male muses ever since [8th grade]. Each of my novels has a different one.”
Kate Christensen, observing how rare the male muse is in art, admires Arthur Phillips’ fourth novel, which centers on a man & the songwriter he inspires.
Stendhal called the novel “a mirror that one walks down a road.” Did he have in mind a perspective like Google Street View’s? (Via.)
Tod Linafelt argues, contra James Wood, that the Bible “may be read not only as a foil to Flaubert (and other novelists) but also as a precursor.” (Via.)
“In my teens I gave up Catholicism, and at the same time I started writing.” — John Banville, in the current Paris Review