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How the Magic Happens, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
November 25, 2013
On the Shelf
Begin your week with these lovely shots of the
Strand Rare Book Room
.
Cary “Westley” Elwes
is, as one might expect, writing a memoir about the making of
The Princess Bride
.
“Compiling this
Guardian
/
Observer
list of one hundred great novels in the English language, and rediscovering old favourites from week to week, has become as much an autobiographical as a literary process.” How the magic (or at least the list)
happens
.
“That swaggering conception of manhood now seems wholly deleterious, and even his worldliness suggests little more than a knack for talking to waiters.”
Michael Gorra on Hemingway
.
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