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Published May 28, 2009 by Rebecca Matheson

Written Lives and why I’ll never be a writer of such high calibre

writtenlivesI just finished this book: Written lives thanks to Javier Marias. It is a collection of essays – short stories on 25+ (I didn’t count) key writers. I confess I haven’t read even close to all of them but it did feature surprising insights into those like Rilke and Oscar Wilde. The rest I am now inclined to pay a literary visit to.

I have concluded since reading, that to be of the highest calibre of writer you must a) have a tragic life b) know multiple other writers who also have tragic lives and  c) hate at least one of them.

So tragically I will never be an author of this kind.

Highly amusing read, worth much more than the measly $5 I paid for it.

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