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Nicholas Delbanco

Nicholas Delbanco (born 1942) is an American writer.

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The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances; what counts, as with all stimuli, is the sympathetic response.

Each Day, Gleans, Scraps, Stimulus, Sympathetic, Wind

My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at the head of the table. I think that's a mistake, in obvious opposition to the ideal of teaching which permits a student to be someone other than the teacher. . . . The successful teacher has to make each of the students a different product rather than the same.

Mistake, Product, Student, Students, Teacher, Teaching

Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.

Data, Entangle, Lying, Reverse, Self, Web

Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories of 'men we reaped,' she quickens the dead and brings them, vividly alive again. An eloquent, grief-steeped account.

Book, Dead, Grief, Men, Quickens, Witness

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