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Jean McGarry's avatar

Thanks for this scathingly honest review of a botched project. Courageous! What I thought interesting about VW's diaries was that they seemed like a repository for her critical and damning eye, something the generosity of the novels avoids. She had a harshness that was corralled in the diaries.

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Ashley Honeysett's avatar

Thanks for this thoughtful essay, Ann. I'm thinking through a post just about the types of forewords by other authors that you're talking about. I kind of enjoyed Jonathan Safran Foer's introduction to the Penguin Classics stories of Bruno Schulz, while also wondering why it was there. And Gabriel García Marquez's introduction to Pedro Páramo was such a great little morsel of his voice. I think I'll read this again as I try to figure out my own thoughts.

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