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By Emily Witt 12/15/11 11:44am

Anxieties of Influence

Dyer.

Geoff Dyer Would Like to Clarify: He Loves W.G. Sebald, but Don't Mix Up Dates Here

Yesterday marked ten years since the untimely death of the German writer W.G. Sebald. The New Yorker‘s Book Bench blog commemorated the occasion with a post about Sebald’s work, where Mark O’Connell noted his influence on the writers Teju Cole, Will Self and Geoff Dyer, who “have been inspired by Sebald’s figurative and literal Read More

By Emily Witt 9:08am

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Books Get Scores, Teju Cole Considers Novels about Solitude and Other Book News

A profile of Minneapolis indie publisher Graywolf Press [Twin Cities Daily Planet]

Teju Cole contemplates the literature of solitude. [Guardian]

Tao Lin interviews Ben Lerner [The Believer]

E-books with soundtracks? “Much of the music — about nine hours’ worth for the typical novel — is instrumental or ambient noise. But during livelier Read More

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