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Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay novelist in the 1940s whom Gore Vidal once considered a rival.

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The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

Book, Books, Important, Intimate, Stranger, Strangers

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit

Book, Fit, Landscape, Literary, Perfect, Thinking

Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating, very hip, rebellious. Figuring her out is a gripping adventure.

Adventure, Bored, Hate, Marie, Masochistic, Self

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique

Experimental, Sincerity, Technique, Think, Thinking

The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.

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