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...which you said you felt like you were done writing about your own life. Oh, you know us memoirists. All we do is lie. I hate saying it, because it's going to sound awful: "Memoirist Says Writing 'Cathartic.' " But it is. I definitely want to write novels, but I seem to have to continue to process these other events. My next book is not a novel, but it's also not a memoir. It's a very different book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Augusten Burroughs | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

According to Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, writing a novel is a lot like playing a game of chess...

Author: By Shambhavi Singh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Turkish Laureate Speaks at Sanders | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...Readers find the sensational experiences that are missing in their lives in a novel,” Pamuk said, describing the former. “The more powerful and persuasive the novel is, the more inadequate the reader feels...

Author: By Shambhavi Singh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Turkish Laureate Speaks at Sanders | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...added that readers often feel “inadequate” once they realize that the world created by the novel is imaginary...

Author: By Shambhavi Singh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Turkish Laureate Speaks at Sanders | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

These are, of course, difficult times to develop parks, and the idea that Afghans would turn away from their traditions devalues the familiar analogies between kite flying and Afghan politics that became famous in the bestselling novel The Kite Runner. On Kite Hill, as in the book, the kite string is textured in glue and glass, and can slice a sleeve or draw blood from a finger as it un-spools skyward. Once you've got your kite in the air, the aim is to cut down another kite - these battles can draw in dozens of combatants. And usually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On a Kabul Hill, the Dogs and Kites of War | 10/25/2009 | See Source »

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