The Remains of the Day - with author’s annotations…
See how Kazuo Ishiguro has annotated this copy of his novel. The annotations are here.
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It’s titled, Glue, written in the second person, 7 chapters completed.
Messud and Wood lived on the third floor of a building called the Wyoming; up in its penthouse, wrapped in a swirl of social activity, were Christopher Hitchens and his wife, Carol Blue. “He was incredibly generous in every possible way,” says Messud. Whenever they entered, Hitchens would stop all conversation, gaze across the crowded room—“the entryway was bigger than this entire floor”—hold out his short arm, and say, “My dear, be still my heart.” But the older couple gave her more than flirtatious attention: “They took me seriously.”
“It’s amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.” —Doris Lessing
Finally, the Literary Cycle of Life can be completed!
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That, my friend, is brilliant.
Wonder if it tastes of blood.
On what it’s like to edit Alice Munro, one of the greatest short story writers alive.
The process of literary whittling.
Above is a page from the style sheets used in-house by the editors and production team for George Saunders’ Tenth Of December.
6th bullet. Long live coinages.
Sometimes the more interesting read is the comments section…
