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A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning.

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It galls me that seeking out the seedy, the sordid, the sexual, and the deviant is the expected (if not altogether acceptable) behavior of male writer...more

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And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone.

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Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical label -- to conclude ...more

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...nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.