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Reflections of a working writer and reader

If the novel is a form of imaginative art, it cannot be at the same time a vivid and brilliant form of journalism. Out of the teeming, gleaming stream of the present it must select the eternal material of art. Willa Cather

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The Lost Generation - Happy Days

With thanks and acknowledgements to Hemingway’s Paris and Jacob Russell’s Barking Dog

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