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Amor Towles: ‘When I reread Ulysses I found it insufferable. Don’t @ me’
The American author on being paid to read in his teens, the allure of graphic novels and the brilliance of Iris MurdochThe book that made me want to be a writerWhen I was in first grade living in the Boston area, David McCord, a writer of juvenile poetry, came to our class to read from his books. I was amazed by the whole thing: by his imagination, by his wordplay, by the manner in which the poetry reached its audience. I knew right then I wanted to be a writer. That night I began writing poems...
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Author Amor Towles; Lost New York at the NY Historical Society; An Inside Look at The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show; Leila Mottley's Poetry Collection
Loading Best-selling author Amor Towles (The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow), has just published a new short story collection, Table For Two, featuring six stories he wrote in the last ten years that are set in New York around the turn of the millennium. The book also includes a novella following Evelyn Ross, a character from Towles' first novel, Rules of Civility, as she travels to 1930s Los Angeles to try and make it in Hollywood.New York is always changing. As a result, buildings,...