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Jonathan Lethem's 10th novel, 'The Blot,' is engaging, entertaining, and sharp for its first two-thirds. Then it goes to hell.

~Lionel Shriver

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What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away.

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Most books are three-thirds rubbish.

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A Trump presidency feels as if we've crawled between the covers of a really crummy book.

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I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at our own game or in racking my brains over what could possibly constitute a contribution when novels pale before the newspaper.

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We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.

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I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us.

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When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall. But writing fiction takes gall.

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There was a point in the latter 1990s at which, suddenly, every sitcom and drama in sight had to have a gay or lesbian character or couple. That was good news as a voucher of the success of the gay rights movement, but it still grew a bit tiresome: 'Look at us! Our show is so hip, one of the characters is homosexual!'

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Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: May 18th, 1957

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