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\"What+Price+Murderlarge\"<\/a><\/p>\n

INTERVIEWER<\/center><\/p>\n

Whom do you read for pleasure?<\/p>\n

WAUGH<\/center><\/p>\n

Anthony Powell. Ronald Knox, both for pleasure and moral edification. Erle Stanley Gardner.<\/p>\n

INTERVIEWER<\/center><\/p>\n

And Raymond Chandler!<\/p>\n

WAUGH<\/center><\/p>\n

No. I\u2019m bored by all those slugs of whiskey. I don\u2019t care for all the violence either.<\/p>\n

INTERVIEWER<\/center><\/p>\n

But isn\u2019t there a lot of violence in Gardner?<\/p>\n

WAUGH<\/center><\/p>\n

Not of the extraneous lubricious sort you find in other American crime writers.<\/p>\n

INTERVIEWER<\/center><\/p>\n

What do you think of other American writers, of Scott Fitzgerald or William Faulkner, for example?<\/p>\n

WAUGH<\/center><\/p>\n

I enjoyed the first part of Tender Is the Night<\/em>. I find Faulkner intolerably bad.<\/p>\n

\u2014Evelyn Waugh, the Art of Fiction No. 30<\/a><\/p>\n

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