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Article: Chip off the old writer's block; Books.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 8, 2004
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Byline: PETE CLARK
LOVE ME by Garrison Keillor (Faber, [pounds sterling]10.99)
IT IS quite possibly an irrational prejudice, but I have always been mightily suspicious of novels that revolve around writer's block. The chronic inability of an author to put meaningful pen to paper, or stroke to key, is a subject of no interest whatsoever to the outside world.
Such books as result from an examination of this condition, however ironic and distanced they might consider themselves to be, are always in danger of running aground on the Rocks of the Selfs - obsession, pity and consciousness.
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