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Jan 8, 2025 | 
publishersweekly.com | Jorge Luis Borges |Chuck Palahniuk |Claire Dederer |Karl Ove Knausgård
We’re attempting to unravel the tangled web of literary influence by talking with the great writers of today about the writers of yesterday who influenced them.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
freshwatercleveland.com | Claire Dederer |Karin Connelly Rice
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Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Author Claire Dederer
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Nick Hilden |Chuck Palahniuk |Claire Dederer |Karl Ove Knausgård
We’re attempting to unravel the tangled web of literary influence by talking with the great writers of today about the writers of yesterday who influenced them. This month, we spoke 2020 National Book Award nominee Rumaan Alam (Entitlement, Leave the World Behind) about the wry maturity of Anita Brookner and 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist Tommy Orange (Wandering Stars, There There) about the singular strangeness of Felisberto Hernández.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
msn.com | Claire Dederer
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Claire Dederer
I was lucky enough to visit the Philip Guston retrospective at Tate Modern last autumn. We made our way past Guston’s early work and through the abstract expressionist paintings that earned him acclaim in the 1950s and 60s before the exhibition bottlenecked into a black-painted hallway, inscribed with a quote from the artist: “The war [in Vietnam], what was happening to America, the brutality of the world.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Nick Hilden |Chuck Palahniuk |Claire Dederer |Karl Ove Knausgård
We’re attempting to unravel the tangled web of literary influence by talking with the great writers of today about the writers of yesterday who inspired them. This month, we spoke with two authors in exile about the revolutionary writers who inspired them. Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha (Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, Forest of Noise) discusses the transcendent poetry of Mahmoud Darwish. Vietnamese novelist Thuậndelves into the repressed career of Trần Dần.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Nick Hilden |Karl Ove Knausgård |Chuck Palahniuk |Claire Dederer
We’re attempting to unravel the tangled web of literary influence by talking with the great writers of today about the writers of yesterday who inspired them. This month, we spoke with two authors whose work explores how future generations will cope with the world they’ve inherited. Helen Phillips (Hum, The Need) discusses the experimental permission passed down by Italo Calvino, and Lois Lowry (The Giver, Number the Stars) delves into the biographical import of Flannery O’Connor.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Chuck Palahniuk |Claire Dederer |Karl Ove Knausgård
We’re attempting to unravel the tangled web of literary influence by talking with the great writers of today about the writers of yesterday who influenced them. This month we spoke with China Miéville (Perdido Street Station, The City & the City) and Keanu Reeves (BRZRKR) who discussed two authors whose influence can be felt in their new collaboration, The Book of Elsewhere.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
msn.com | Claire Dederer
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Claire Dederer
I know too much about Joan Didion. I’ve seen her image on tote bags and Celine ads; I’ve scrolled past her beautiful sulking face on countless Instagram feeds; I’ve streamed multiple documentaries about her. You’ll notice that I’m not describing her work; I’m describing her fame: the Didion spectacle. I’m impatient with this fame of hers. I believe she is famous for the wrong reasons; in other words, that she is loved wrongly and maybe too widely.
