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Herta Muller, Mo Yan, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio - for many of us, the Nobels have become doubly educational: We simultaneously learn of an author's existence and find out that we ought to have been reading him or her all along.

~Ben Dolnick

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People often talk about the characters in books as if they were considering whom to invite to a dinner party. 'Oh, I just hated her - she was so mean.' 'He's a bully; I didn't like how he treated his mother.'

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: About Books Bully Characters Considering Dinner Dinner Party Hated He Her His How Invite Just Like Mean Mother Often Oh Party People She Talk Treated Were Whom

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There's something to be said for a likable character, but fiction has a way of upending our ordinary standards.

~Ben Dolnick

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Philip Roth has made a cottage industry of unlikable characters, but compared with Mickey Sabbath, the furious and profane protagonist of 'Sabbath's Theater,' Roth's earlier creations seem like Winnie the Pooh.

~Ben Dolnick

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'At Freddie's' takes place in 1960s London at the Temple Stage School for child actors. It has a plot that makes you feel sorry for the people who have to write summaries on the backs of books.

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: Actor Backs Books Child Child Actors Feel For The People London Makes People Place Plot School Sorry Stage Takes Temple Who Write You 1960S

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When I first read 'At Freddie's', I was struggling with my own writing, particularly with how to write about a sad subject - the death of a parent - without writing an entirely sad book.

~Ben Dolnick

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Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from the shelf with a single stretched hand. You'd be holding an eclectic bunch.

~Ben Dolnick

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Every morning as I begin my work day, my computer presents me with the usual array of garbage: email, Twitter, updates on the state of the nation, updates on the state of the sneakers I just ordered.

~Ben Dolnick

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When I started researching the eco effects of eating meat, I'd assumed, for no good reason, that environmental irresponsibility would correspond to both animal size and deliciousness: Eating cows would be worst, eating pigs would be a bit less bad, and eating chickens would be basically harmless.

~Ben Dolnick

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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