It fascinates me how many different ways there are to think about writing.
Fellow #writers, do any of you resonate with these words by William Gass, in a 1976 interview in The Paris Review?
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3576/the-art-of-fiction-no-65-william-gass
If not (and I suspect it's "not" for most of you), what *would* you say motivates your work? Has it always been this way, or have your motivations changed over time?
Someone asked me a few weeks back what my favourite novels were. Then I had a Bad Time harassed on the street & forgot. 🙃 So many! How to choose?
Brothers K is one I feel too personally to rank; others include The Sea, The Sea; Light in August; Middlemarch; A Cure for Suicide; Golden Notebook; Anathem...
But for exquisite books? Top 3?
The Name of the Rose
The Years of Rice and Salt
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Books that seek wholehearted immersion will always win my heart.
Y tú? 👀
#Books
I should add contemporaries:
▪️ Wizard of the Crow, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
▪️ A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
▪️ Preparation for the Next Life, Atticus Lish
▪️ The Wrong End of the Telescope, Rabih Alameddine
▪️ Vagabonds, Hao Jingfang
▪️ A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James
▪️ Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
▪️ Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers
Ugh. You see? There're too many good books. This isn't an easy question! We need each another if we're ever to read them all. 😭