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Article: Stable and salon.(authorship)
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- American Scholar
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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To write for one's life is to hide and then seek. You wander or scuttle away and, in hiding, you discover the frightening mysteries of honest language and necessary form. Then you aim for light; you demand it, however silently, and you are puzzled, thwarted, even angry, when no one applauds what you went away from them to do.
J. F. McCrindle published my first short story to appear in print in his wonderful Transatlantic Review, successor to the journal of that name run by Ford Madox Ford. In the Summer 1966 issue, my work appeared with that of Arnold Wesker, B. S. Johnson, John Updike, Paul Bowles, Malcolm Bradbury, Irvin Faust, H. E. Francis, William Burroughs, ...