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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...