Summary
In 1963, the Anglo-American poet W.H. Auden elegantly noted that "most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts."
The lone Winnipegger to crack [Harry Bruce]'s voluminous index is our Giller Prize-winner, David Bergen, recalled for his habit 20 years ago, when his children were young, of writing in his car, "resting the coiled steno pad against the steering wheel."Bruce has a mellifluous style, honed by a lifetime of journalism. His only annoying tic is inserting irrelevant detail to bolster an author's resume, as when he quotes a minor reviewer calling Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer "the magician of west 86th Street."See the full content of this document
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The Write Stuff: Authorial Quirks Uncovered
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Foibles and Fetishes of Famous WritersBy Harry BruceDouglas Gibson/M&S, 351 pages, $33WHILE writing his massive Human Comedy, 19th-century French no...See the full content of this document
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